Jennifer Lewis, a 2022 Fulbright Scholar and experienced mental health clinician, is a national leader in neurobiologically informed and transdisciplinary care. With deep expertise in mental health and addiction, she has developed and taught interventions that integrate brain science with social work practice to improve well-being across diverse populations.

Lewis serves as teaching professor and director of the Master of Social Work (MSW) program at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, where she has led significant innovations in curriculum design and program expansion. She co-directs curriculum for the Institute for Addiction Science — a collaboration with the Keck School of Medicine and the USC Mann School of Pharmacy — advancing interdisciplinary addiction science education.

She previously served as chief of social work at UC San Diego Health in the Department of Pediatrics, where she authored and implemented a $2.4 million U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant supporting HIV-positive mothers with substance use disorders. Her professional leadership also includes roles as program director at the Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS and as director of mental health and social services at New York City's Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, the nation’s leading LGBTQ+ health center.

At USC, Lewis has shaped MSW and DSW curricula as chair and vice chair of multiple curriculum committees and as a fellow of the Center for Excellence in Teaching. Her scholarship and service span topics such as integrated care, suicide prevention and educational equity. She co-authored “Organizing for Suicide Prevention: A Case Study at the Golden Gate Bridge” and has presented nationally and internationally, including at the LA Times Festival of Books and through her Fulbright work. 

She is also founder of Mosaic Psychotherapy, LLC, providing counseling and consultation focused on LGBTQ+ mental health, trauma and complex clinical issues.