Vivian E. Garrison (August 28, 1933 – April 2, 2013) was an applied medical anthropologist who researched mental health care among low-income, minority, and migrant communities in the New York metropolitan area.

She worked predominantly with African American, Hispanic, and Caribbean migrant populations in the South Bronx and in Newark, New Jersey.

The majority of Garrison's research was completed at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, at the College/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and at Columbia University.

Throughout her career, Garrison acted as a consultant for projects on folk healing and community health care.

[3] She taught intermittently, including teaching a semester of Margaret Mead's Problems and Methods in Anthropology course at Columbia University (1979).