Dr. Jo Phelan’s research interests include social stigma, conceptions of mental illness, the impact of the "genetics revolution" on the stigma of mental illness, attitudes and beliefs relating to social inequality and its legitimation, as well as social inequalities in health and mortality.

Areas of expertise
homelessness; social inequalities in health; stigma

Recent publications

Phelan JC, Link BG "Fear of people with mental illnesses: the role of personal and impersonal contact and exposure to threat or harm" Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45 68-80. 2004

Phelan JC, Link BG, Diez-Roux A, Kawachi I, Levin B "Fundamental causes of social inequality in mortality: a test of the theory" Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45 265-285 2004

Phelan JC, Cruz-Rojas R, Reiff M "Genes and stigma: the connection between perceived genetic etiology and attitudes and beliefs about mental illness" Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills 6 159-85 2002