Joshua Mendelsohn
MSc PhD
Assistant Professor
College of Health Professions
Pace University
New York,
United States
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. I 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
Centres
Teaching
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. I teach courses in Health Care for Diverse Populations and Global Health IT and Innovation at Pace University.
Research
My research interests include HIV treatment and prevention, social epidemiology, and population mobility, especially in conflict-affected settings. I am currently involved in studies on the effectiveness of immediate antiretroviral therapy for reducing incident HIV infections in Shanghai, China; an innovative HIV stigma-reduction intervention in northern Uganda; HIV risk and relationship satisfaction among serodiscordant couples in Canada. My work is supported primarily by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.