Prof. (Dr.) Sambuddha Chaudhuri

Dissertation

• Exploring Financial Incentives to promote Adherence to Anti-retroviral medications in People Living With HIV/AIDS.

Peer-Reviewed Manuscripts

• Ghose, T., Shubert, V., Chaudhuri, S., Poitevien, V., & Updyke, A. (2021). Are Financial Incentives Appropriate Means of Encouraging Medication Adherence Among People Living With HIV?. AMA journal of ethics, 23(5), 394- 401.
• Ali, S., Chaudhuri, S., Ghose, T., Jana, S., & Dolui, R. (2021). Sexual health communication between sex worker mothers and their children in India. Culture, health & sexuality, 1-16.
• Ali, S., Keo, B., & Chaudhuri, S.(2020). Critically understanding South Asian Sexual Health: A call for a holistic and sex positive approach. International Journal of Sexual Health. Online First. (Impact Factor: 1.19)
• Ali, S., Chaudhuri, S., Ghose, T., & Jana, S.(2020). Examining the role of a community-led structural intervention in shaping mothering among sex workers in India. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work Online First. (Impact Factor: 1.085)
• Ghose, T., Shubert, V., Poitevien, V., Chaudhuri, S., & Gross, R. (2019). Effectiveness of a Viral Load Suppression Intervention for Highly Vulnerable People Living with HIV. AIDS and Behavior, 1-10. (Impact Factor:3.312)
• Ghose, T., Ali, S., Shubert, V., Stanton, M., Walker, L., & Chaudhuri, S. (2019). ” It’s my Room and my Life”: Housing’s Influence on Medication Adherence for HIV-positive Women Released from Incarceration. Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, 30(1), 182-201.
• Stanton, M. C., Ali, S., & Chaudhuri, S. (2017). Individual, social and community-level predictors of wellbeing in a US sample of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 19(1), 32-49. (Impact Factor:1.742)
• Ali, S., Ghose, T., Jana, S., & Chaudhuri, S. (2014). Exceeding the Individual: A Qualitative Examination of a Community-Led Structural Intervention and Its Implications for Sex Workers and Their Families. Global Social Welfare, 1(2), 53-63.

Under Review

• Chaudhuri, S., Ghose, T., & Shubert, G. Effect of Financial Incentives on patterns of Adherence to anti-retroviral medication among the clients at a community-based HIV clinic and service organization. American Journal of Public Health. (Impact Factor: 4.138)
• Ali, S., & Chaudhuri, S. A community and family based sexual health communication with the sex worker community in Kolkata, India. AIDS and Behavior. (Impact Factor: 3.063)
• Chaudhuri, S., & Ali., S. Sexual Health and Well-Being of South Asian young adults in the United States. Culture, Health & Sexuality. (Impact Factor:1.588)

Short Communications to Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Chaudhuri, S., & Pradhan, R. (2021). Re-examining the notion of irrational antimicrobial prescribing in LMICs. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 21(1), 28-29. (Impact Factor 24.446)

Academic Blogs

• Singh, K.,& Chaudhuri S.,(March 25,2020).Confronting disparities in the time of COVID-19.Talking Policy, Centre for Policy Studies, IITB. https://www.cps.iitb.ac.in/confronting-disparities-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
• Chaudhuri S.,(March 18,2020).COVID-19: Responding to the risk. Talking Policy, Centre for Policy Studies, IITB. https://www.cps.iitb.ac.in/covid-19-responding-to-the-risk/
• Chaudhuri S.,(November 30,2019).Remembering the history of HIV/AIDS. Talking Policy, Centre for Policy Studies, IITB. https://www.cps.iitb.ac.in/world-aids-day-remembering-the-history-of-hiv-aids-on-december-1/
• Chaudhuri S.,(March 31,2019).Ayushman Bharat :accessible healthcare or cause for concern for the welfare state?
• Talking Policy, Centre for Policy Studies, IITB. https://www.cps.iitb.ac.in/ayushman-bharat-accessible-healthcare-or-cause-for-concern-for-the-welfare-state/

• Guest Faculty: Workshop On Future of City Planning. Lecture on Public Health and City Planning. Indian Institute of Technology on 23rd November, 2019.

• Guest Faculty: Short Duration Course on Public Health Ethics. Lecture on Health Policy Analysis and Ethics of Public health. Organized by Health, Ethics and Law (HEaL) Institute for Training, Research and Advocacy of Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES), Mumbai at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay on 18th July, 2019.

• Guest lecturer: Experiences of research with Sex Workers in Kolkata, India to a graduate class in Advanced Qualitative methods at Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania on 10th February 2014.

• Guest lecturer: LGBTQ rights, and International Policy to an undergraduate class in Global Perspective on International Social Policy at Silver School of Social Work, New York University on 22nd October 2014.

• Guest lecturer: Risk Discourse in the Social Services to a master’s level class in History of US Social Policy at

  the School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania on 4th November 2014.

   

• Guest lecturer: Qualitative Research Methods to a master’s level class in Research Methods at School of Social

  Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania on 26th July2016.

• Discussant and moderator: Panel on Gender, Race, and Labor at the 40th annual conference of Gender,

  Sexuality, and Women’s studies at University of Pennsylvania on 28th February 2014.

• Chaudhuri. S, & Ali., S (2020, February) . A Safe Space: Influence of the experience of space in the Red Light district in Mother-Child Sexual health communication. Paper presented at International Conference on Urban Science and Engineering, February, 2020,

• Kleigman. A, Ghose. T, Chaudhuri, S., & Poitevien, V. (2015, November). Using financial incentives to support viral load suppression in a community-based organization providing integrated care. Paper presented at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, at Chicago, IL.

• Stanton, M.C., Chaudhuri, S., Ali, S., Walker, L., Shubert, V., & Ghose, T. (2015, January). Beyond Risk: Experiences of Strength and Resilience Among Transgender Women Living with HIV. Paper presented at Society for Social Work and Research, Annual Conference, at New Orleans, LA.

• Ali, S., &Chaudhuri, S. (2015, January). Room for Conversation: The Salience of Space in Mother Child Sexual Health Communication. Paper presented at Society for Social Work and Research, Annual Conference, at New Orleans, LA.

• Chaudhuri, S. & Ali, S. (2015, January) Structures of Violence: Exploring the Risk Environment of Violence in GLBT Individuals in India. Paper presented at Society for Social Work and Research, Annual Conference, at New Orleans, LA.

• Ali,S., Chaudhuri, S., & Ghose, T.(2015, January).Community and Family-Based Sexual Health Communication Intervention with Sex Worker Mothers: A Pilot Study. Paper presented at Society for Social Work and Research, Annual Conference, at New Orleans, LA.

• Chaudhuri, S., Ali, S. & Jana, S. (2014, November). Environments of Violence: Exploring risk of violence in LGBT individuals in India. Paper presented at

  American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, at New Orleans, LA.

• Ali, S.,Dolui ,R.& Chaudhuri, S. (2014,November).‘We’ll do it together’: The CBPR process with a sex workers’ collective in Kolkata, India. Paper presented at

• American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, at New Orleans, LA.

• Ali,S., Stanton,M.C., Clarke,M., Shubert,V., Ghose,T.,& Chaudhuri,S. (2013, November) Voting behavior in People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the context of a Community-Based HIV Service Organization(CBHSO).Paper presented at The Annual Conference of ARNOVA, at Hartford, CT.

• Attended CREA workshop on Gender and Sexuality at Maharashtra, 2012.

• Recipient of Summer fellowship for PhD students in the School of Social Policy and Practice in summer of   2014.

• Assistant Director  (July2022)
  BMGF COVID-19 project at Lucknow Uttar Pradesh for Mamta Health Institute for Mother and Child.

• Project Research Scientist (July 2021- October 2021) Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA) Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

• Research Methods (PS 610-01) – January 2020- March 2020 and January 2021-March 2021– Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  Research methods class for graduate students, where the course work was divided into several modules. Instructor for the module on Grounded Theory for Qualitative Research methods.

• Health Policy: An Introduction (PS 619) – August 2021- November 2021, August 2020-November 2020, July 2019- November 2019, and July to November, 2018 – Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  The course was a masters’ level module, which offered an introduction to the principles of epidemiology, health statistics, and political science of state and policy and health policy history in India. Designed and co-taught the class with faculty mentor Prof. Arnab Jana.

• Contemporary Social Policy (SWRK 711) – Spring, 2016- University of Pennsylvania

  The course offered an overview and critical evaluation of current US public policy in areas such as health, social support, housing, criminal justice system, education, and housing. This was a required course for master of social work, elective for master of social policy and cross listed with Graduate School of Education, Annenberg School of Communication. Instructor for the class, redesigned readings, and assignments within the rubric of the approved syllabus.

• Action Research (SWRK 743)-Summer, 2016- University of Pennsylvania

  The course was an introduction to the principles of community based participatory research or action research. Relevant theory of research, a practical outline for a project along with illustrative case studies formed the focus of this course. This was an elective course for research credits in master of social work and master of social policy.

  Instructor for the class, adapted and redesigned previous syllabus for this summer course.

• International Nonprofits and Development (NPLD 582)-Fall, 2015- University of Pennsylvania

  Elective course for degree in non-profit leadership development, master of social policy and master of social work in School of Policy and Practice and cross listed with The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. This course focused on the theory and practice of development projects in the global south with an emphasis on the economics, politics and issue specific problem solving for international non-profits. Acted as teaching assistant which included helping the instructor to adapt/upgrade the syllabus, facilitate seminars and invited talks and grading weekly and final assignments.