A medical anthropologist and Emeritus Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut, School of Medicine, where he has taught and mentored students in medicine, the master’s and PhD programs in public health and anthropology from 1976 to the present. His first two decades after his PhD focused on health and mental health research and program and institution building in underserved African American and Hispanic communities in Chicago, Miami and Hartford, Connecticut. His next three decades focused on global health. As head of the Center for International Community Health Studies at the School of Medicine, he led in-residence courses for program management, research methodology and the training process for over 500 health professionals from low and middle-income countries. With faculty colleagues, he facilitated global health education for medical and public health students that included in-country placements in 54 countries. He initiated a research and program development agenda in HIV/STI prevention, reduction of sexual risk, and treatment of HIV in global underserved communities. These projects, conducted in Mauritius, Sri Lanka, India and Vietnam involved community research leading to the development and testing of culturally based interventions wetre primarily supported by funding from the US National Institutes of Health. These activities have resulted in multiple peer-reviewed publications, books and book chapters. Professor Schensul is the recipient of the Career Award (2010) from the Society for Medical Anthropology, the University of Connecticut Provost’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Public Engagement (2008) and shares the Kimball Award (1990) in Public and Applied Anthropology with Professor Jean J. Schensul.