Colston, Josh
Primary Appointment
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine: Infectious Diseases and International Health
Education
- MS, Demography and Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- PhD, Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health
Contact Information
MR-6, Room 2528
PO Box 801340
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
Fax: 434-924-0075
Email: JMC5CP@uvahealth.org
Website: https://www.jmcolston.com/
Research Disciplines
Infectious Diseases/Biodefense
Research Interests
Childhood undernutrition and infectious diseases and their socio-economic and environmental determinants in LMICs; teaching undergraduate epidemiology
Research Description
Josh is an epidemiologist and spatial demographer with research interests that include childhood undernutrition and infectious diseases and their socio-economic and environmental determinants in low-resource settings. He provides analytical expertise to numerous NASA-, NIH-, CDC-, WHO- and Gates Foundation-funded research projects, mostly carried out under the supervision of his longtime mentor Dr. Margaret Kosek. This research involves characterizing environmental drivers of enteric diseases, emerging febrile illnesses, and COVID-19 using earth observation (satellite), household survey, and surveillance data. This semester he took over instructing the undergraduate Introduction to Epidemiology course in the Department of Public Health Sciences. A US-born Brit, he has a masters’ degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.