Joshua Yudkin, MA MPH currently serves as the Ralph I. Goldman Fellow with the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). As an epidemiologist, Yudkin also serves as a researcher at the Myers-JDC Brookdale Institute and a guest researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States. As a global social epidemiologist, Josh’s research portfolio primarily focuses on quantifying and assessing sociocultural factors in vulnerable populations. He has conducted both field and clinical research in rural communities in places such as Tamil Nadu, India and Chihuahua, Mexico as well as with hospital systems in Texas in the United States. Josh has presented at major conferences like the American Public Health Association (APHA) and currently serves on the Texas Society for Public Health Education (TSOPHE) executive board. Most recently, Josh was awarded a Fulbright research grant to continue his research developing new national healthcare policies and strategies aimed at disease prevention in Colombia.