Susan Crosby Scrimshaw[1] is an American scholar of medical anthropology and university administrator.
[3] She taught at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles, where she served as associate and acting dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
[2] Her field of research is medial anthropology and she has focused on how gender, race, ethnicity, and culture affects public health practices.
Scrimshaw was named dean of the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Public Health in 1994, serving in that position until 2006, when she was named president of Simmons University.
[6] She was the recipient of the 1985 Margaret Mead Award for her work on cultural factors affecting healthcare delivery.