Jo Carol Phelan is a Special Research Scientist in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences and co-director of the Center for the Study of Social Inequalities and Health at

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. She is known for working with Bruce Link to develop the theory of fundamental causes of

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. She was a

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Visiting Scholar from 2012 to 2013. She also received a Health Policy Investigator Award from the

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in 1996, and the 1999 book ''Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health'', which she co-edited, received the prize for best publication from the

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's Section of the Sociology of Mental Health.

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