0000-0002-5376-9839 About
Presently, a Senior Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs and a Professor (Tenured) of the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Dr. Joshi, an established population health informatics researcher combines his academic training in clinical medicine, public health, and informatics to design and develop human-centered, technology-enabled interventions to enhance population health outcomes across diverse community settings. He has extensive experience in utilizing community and hospital-based data to implement and evaluate informatics-enabled solutions to address social, economic, and health inequities of the 21st century.
Dr. Joshi as a founding member of the CUNY SPH has made a significant contribution to advancing the CUNY SPH by providing leadership for the planning and implementation of all components of the academic programs including curriculum implementation, new academic programs, and 4+1 pipeline initiatives, online instruction, accreditation, career and experiential learning, and student and faculty affairs, and Human Research Protection Office. Dr. Joshi also launched the first of its kind fully online Certificate and MS Population Health Informatics Programs. Despite his administrative role, continues scholarly and research contributions to facilitate global collaborations and implement technology-enabled data-driven informed decision-making to bring more transparency and equity across various academic and administrative units.
He has designed and developed, standalone and internet-enabled, multi-lingual, digital health interventions such as population health dashboards, consumer health informatics, m-health interventions, and population-based surveillance tools across multiple settings to improve population health outcomes. Dr. Joshi successfully completed more than two dozen research projects in the areas of population health informatics across multiple countries including the US, India, Nigeria, Haiti, Egypt, and Brazil. These projects were funded by several Federal agencies including NIH, AHRQ, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Fulbright, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ministry of Health Brazil, Indian Council of Medical Research, Office of Mayor, NY City, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and New York State and other private foundations. Dr. Joshi conceptualized the SMAART (Sustainable, Multisector, Accessible, Affordable, Reimbursable, and Tailored) model using combined principles of the human-centered approach, humanistic, behavioral, learning, and information processing theory to advance the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. He has developed several SMAART labs across various states of India aimed to bring public health research into action through community partnerships, and innovative programs addressing health inequities. He was invited to present the innovative SMAART model at the WHO, United Nations, and several other government agencies globally. He utilizes innovative approaches to conduct workforce analysis to identify essential skills, knowledge, and expertise needed to address 21st-century public health challenges.
Currently, he is the Chair of the Global Health Informatics Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is also an author of the first textbook published on Population Health Informatics: Driving Evidence-based solutions into practice published by Jones Bartlett. He has developed first of its kind only an MS program in Population Health Informatics and a non-credit Certificate Program in Population Health Informatics. Dr. Joshi has been leading CUNY SPH efforts to implement the NYC Resource Navigator Test and Trace Program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and secured an award of a $10 million contract with the Housing Recovery Operations of the Mayor’s Office to now implement the aftercare resource navigator program to address COVID-19 recovery efforts.
Employment
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City University of New York Senior Associate Dean2018 - Present
Education
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University of Texas PhD2009 - 2012
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