Jessica Neicun

Jessica Neicun is a health and medical sociologist working on the political, socio-economic and cultural factors influencing health, illness and healthcare trajectories. She holds a Bachelor of Sociology (University of Chile, 2003) and two Master’s degrees: Development studies (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2006) and Migration (University of Paris 7 Denis-Diderot, 2007). 

As a graduate, she held several positions in Chile and France, working as a policy and research officer in the social policy field for both the public sector and non-profit organisations. In 2023 she earned a PhD in International Health from Maastricht University (The Netherlands). Between 2022 and 2025, she worked at the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal Research Centre (CRCHUM) where she led a collaborative postdoctoral research project aimed at improving access to healthcare for homeless Indigenous peoples in Montreal, Canada. 

In February 2025 she joined the University of Montreal School of Public Health, where she began studying interdisciplinary approaches to the impacts of climate change on health. She is a member of the Advisory Team for the Mental Health | Policy | Economics Group from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). She also collaborates with the Feast Centre for Indigenous STBBI Research (Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University - Canada) and the Centro de Estudios en Interculturalidad Crítica en Salud (Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de La Frontera - Chile).