Julia Rozanova, PhD

Julia Rozanova is a Lecturer in Global Mental Health at King's College London, and an Associate Research Scientist with the Yale AIDS Program. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Alberta, and subsequently trained in Social Gerontology at Brown University. She then completed two postdoctoral fellowships, in Urban Ethnography with Prof Elijah Anderson at Yale Sociology Department, and in Implementation Science, with Prof Frederick Altice at Yale School of Medicine. Dr Rozanova's research has been funded by the Alberta Heritage Foundation, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Institute on Mental Health, National Institute on Aging, and National Institute of Health Research (NIHR). Dr. Rozanova has an active research interest in addictions and opioid use disorder, and she has led studies with criminal justice populations in Kyrgyzstan focusing on improving linkage to treatment. In partnership with Prof Sir John Strang, she co-leads a Prison Release Engagement Trial in the UK, that investigates the ability for an app-based contingency management tool to improve linkage to treatment within 21 days post-release among prison-leavers with heroin use history. With Yale colleague Sheela Shenoi and colleagues from the European Institute on Public Health Policy in Kyiv, Dr Rozanova has conducted research at the intersection of HIV, addiction, and aging in Ukraine since 2017. Her studies examining how older adults with HIV cope during the humanitarian crisis have continued throughout the full-scale Russian invasion.