Joanna Busza BA MSc
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Joanna Busza joined LSHTM in 2001 after having worked for the Population Council in Southeast Asia, where she conducted operations research on HIV prevention for marginalised populations. She has 15 years of international research experience on HIV, sexual and reproductive behaviour, and the social determinants of risk among vulnerable and hard-to-reach groups, particularly sex workers and mobile poulations.
Joanna's focus has been on applied research, including the design and evaluation of targeted, community-based interventions for HIV prevention and treatment. She led a USAID-funded study to evaluate community mobilisation as an HIV prevention approach for migrant Vietnamese sex workers in Cambodia. She has particicular expertise in the use of qualitative methods and participatory approaches, both in conducting research and as a means to create enabling social environments for risk reduction.
She completed the MSc Medical Demography at LSHTM in 1997. Prior to that, she worked for reproductive health and human rights NGOs in the Middle East, and did an undergraduate degree in Political Science.
Affiliation
Teaching
Joanna organises Social Epidemiology (with James Hargreaves). She also teaches on Family Planning Programmes; Foundations in Reproductive Health; and Research, Design and Analysis.
Joanna conducts training in research, monitoring, and evaluation skills for NGO and other institutions based in developing countries. She also conducts short training packages on the design and evaluation of behaviour change programmes for sexual and reproductive health, most recently for UNICEF.
Research
Joanna's research interests focus on assessing the health needs of "hard to reach" communities, including sex workers, injecting drug users, undocumented migrants, and street children. She is interested in developing context-specific sampling and data collection methods to inform the design of targeted interventions, particularly those that challenge the wider risk environments that shape unsafe sexual behaviour and poor access to health services.
She also works with NGOs and researchers in developing countries to develop appropriate monitoring and evaluation strategies for sexual and reproductive health projects. She is currently working on studies based in South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. Joanna also leads a technical assistance project for UNICEF, helping develop reseach and intervention activities on HIV prevention for adolescents involved in sex work and injecting drug use in 7 East European countries. She was also involved in a local qualitative study of social support networks and health among migrant sex workers in London.
Research areas
- Complex interventions
- HIV/AIDS
- Risk
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Social and structural determinants of health
Disciplines
- Anthropology
- Demography
- Operational research
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Selected publications
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Street-based adolescents at high risk of HIV in Ukraine.
Busza, J.R.; Balakireva, O.M.; Teltschik, A.; Bondar, T.V.; Sereda, Y.V.; Meynell, C.; Sakovych, O.;
J Epidemiol Community Health, 2010;
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The "Seeded" Focus Group: A strategy to recruit HIV+ community members into treatment research.
Busza, J.; Zaba, B.; Urassa, M.;
Sex Transm Infect, 2008; 85(3):212-5
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Having the rug pulled from under your feet: one project's experience of the US policy reversal on sex work.
Busza, J.;
Health Policy Plan, 2006; 21(4):329-32
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Barriers to accessing antiretroviral therapy in kisesa, Tanzania: a qualitative study of early rural referrals to the national program.
Mshana, G.H.; Wamoyi, J.; Busza, J.; Zaba, B.; Changalucha, J.; Kaluvya, S.; Urassa, M.;
AIDS Patient Care STDS, 2006; 20(9):649-57
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Effect of a structural intervention for the prevention of intimate-partner violence and HIV in rural South Africa: a cluster randomised trial
Pronyk, P.M.; Hargreaves, J.R.; Kim, J.C.; Morison, L.A.; Phetla, G.; Watts, C.; Busza, J.; Porter, J.D.H.
Lancet, 2006; 368(9551):1973-1983
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How does a "risk group" perceive risk? Voices of Vietnamese sex workers in Cambodia
Busza, J.
Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 2005; 17(1/2):65-82
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Trafficking and health.
Busza, J.; Castle, S.; Diarra, A.;
British Medical Journal, 2004; 328(7452):1369-71
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In forests and factories: sexual behaviour among young migrant workers in Nepal
Puri, M. C.; Busza, J.
Culture Health & Sexuality, 2004; 6(2):145-158
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