Joshua Mendelsohn

MSc PhD

Assistant Professor

College of Health Professions
Pace University
New York
United Kingdom

I am an Assistant Professor in the College of Health Professions at Pace University in New York City and a Module Organiser at LSHTM. I completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the CIHR Social Research Centre in HIV Prevention, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. I received my PhD from the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, LSHTM, where I partnered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to evaluate HIV treatment outcomes among refugees and local host communities in Kenya and Malaysia. I am a member of the Public Health in Humanitarian Crises Group and an Associate Managing Editor for the journal Conflict & Health. Earlier in my career, I worked as a researcher for the Demos' Science Policy Team and as a consultant for Goss Gilroy on a variety of environmental and health sector projects. I also hold an MSc in Environmental Change and Management (University of Oxford) and a BSc (Honours) in Zoology and Psychology from the University of Toronto.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Distance Education and Professional Development Office

Centres

Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre

Teaching

I teach Healthcare for Diverse Populations, Healthcare Ethics and Healthcare Policy at Pace University. At LSHTM, I am the Module Organizer for Distance Learning Conflict and Health module. I also serve as a Tutor on the Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases module. Previously, I taught on in-house courses in Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health and Basic Epidemiology at LSHTM, and Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods at the School of Public Policy, University College London.

Research

My research interests include HIV/AIDS, antiretroviral therapy, HIV-serodiscordance, social epidemiology, mobile populations, and conflict-affected settings. I am currently involved in studies on the effectiveness of immediate antiretroviral therapy for reducing incident HIV infections in Shanghai, China, and socio-structural factors associated with HIV risk among serodiscordant couples in Canada. My work is supported by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.

Research Area

Conflict

Health inequalities

Health outcomes

Infectious disease policy

Social and structural determinants of health

Global Health

Mixed methods

Discipline

Epidemiology

Operational research

Policy analysis

Disease and Health Conditions

HIV/AIDS

Infectious disease

Pandemic diseases

Sexually transmitted infection

Country

Canada

China

Kenya

Malaysia

Region

East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)

North America

Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

World

Selected Publications

Impact evaluation of a community-based intervention to reduce risky sexual behaviour among female sex workers in Shanghai, China.

Liu, J. ; Calzavara, L. ; Mendelsohn, J.B. ; O'Leary, A. ; Kang, L. ; Pan, Q. ; Myers, T. ; Ren, J. ; Cha, Y. ; Shi, G. ; Liu, X. ; Tian, X. ; Fan, H. ; Ni, Y. ; Remis, R.S. ;

BMC Public Health

A scoping review and thematic analysis of social and behavioural research among HIV-serodiscordant couples in high-income settings.

Mendelsohn, J.B. ; Calzavara, L. ; Daftary, A. ; Mitra, S. ; Pidutti, J. ; Allman, D. ; Bourne, A. ; Loutfy, M. ; Myers, T. ;

BMC Public Health

Design and implementation of a sexual health intervention for migrant construction workers situated in Shanghai, China.

Mendelsohn, J.B. ; Calzavara, L. ; Light, L. ; Burchell, A.N. ; Ren, J. ; Kang, L. ;

Emerg Themes Epidemiol

Is forced migration a barrier to treatment success? Similar HIV treatment outcomes among refugees and a surrounding host community in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Mendelsohn, J.B.; Schilperoord, M.; Spiegel, P.; Balasundaram, S.; Radhakrishnan, A.; Lee, C.K.; Larke, N.; Grant, A.D.; Sondorp, E.; Ross, D.A.;

AIDS Behav

Antiretroviral therapy for refugees and internally displaced persons: a call for equity.

Mendelsohn, J.B. ; Spiegel, P. ; Schilperoord, M. ; Cornier, N. ; Ross, D.A. ;