Kenneth Wells

Dr. Kenneth Wells, the David Weil Endowed Chair and Professor-in-Residence of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is an expert on disparities in mental health services and depression.

Wells, who is a professor of health services in the Fielding School of Public Health, is also an authority on mental health and homelessness, including among military veterans.

He is also a senior scientist at RAND and the principal investigator of Community Partners in Care and director of the UCLA/RAND National Institute of Mental Health Center for Partnered Research. Additionally, Wells is director of the Center for Health Services and Society at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.