Project Director
Joshua is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. There he works with sexual and gender minority youth and young adults in understanding their experiences of minority-related stress and interpersonal violence, and the impact of those experiences on their mental, physical, and particularly sexual health. Joshua has extensive knowledge of HIV prevention among gender minority populations from his previous work with Friends Research Institute, Inc. in Los Angeles, California. Joshua holds a PhD and an MSW in Social Work from the University of Southern California, and a BA in Psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Joshua’s dissertation, “Complicated Relationships: The prevalence and correlates of sexual assault, dating violence victimization, and minority stress among sexual minority adolescents throughout the United States,” investigated the relationship of minority stress and interpersonal violence victimization over time among a large national sample of sexual minority adolescents into young adulthood.
Institution: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Protocol: TechStep
