Education and Training

• BA (Integrative Biology, Interdisciplinary Studies) 1996, University of California Berkeley
• MD2001, Tufts University School of Medicine
• MPH 2001, Tufts University School of Medicine
• Internal Medicine Intern and Resident 2004, University of Chicago
• Infectious Diseases Fellowship 2006, University of Chicago
• NRSA Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship 2008, Tufts-New England Medical Center

Research Interests

• Social/sexual network analysis
• HIV prevention in high-risk men
• Global Health with a focus on India

Selected Publications

Hemmige V, Snyder H, Liao C, Mayer K, Lakshmi V, Rani S, Oruganti G, Schneider JA. Sex position, marital status, and HIV risk among Indian MSM: Clues to optimizing prevention approaches. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 2011 Jun 17. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:21682588

Schneider JA, Michaels S, Rani S, Liao C, Yeldandi V, Oruganti G. A protective effect of circumcision among receptive male sex partners of Indian men who have sex with men. AIDS and Behavior. 2011 Jun 17. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21681562

Schneider JA,, Voisin D, Michaels S, Ostrow D, Laumann EO. Evaluation of sexual networks as a cause for disparate HIV prevalence between blacks and whites: more questions than answers. AIDS. 2011 25(15): 1933-4. PMID: 21914982

Schneider JA, Laumann EO. Alternative explanations for negative findings in the Community Popular Opinion Leader multi-site trial and recommendations for improvements of health interventions through social network analysis. JAIDS. 2011 Apr;56(4):e119-20. PMID: 21350361

Lindau ST, Chin MH, Desautels S, Johnson D, Johnson WE, Makelarski JA, Miller D, Peters S, Robinson C, Schneider JA, Thicklin F, Watson NP, Wolfe M, Whitaker E. Science in Service to Community: Building Community-Engaged Health Research and Discovery Infrastructure on the South Side of Chicago. Journal of Preventive Medicine . 2011 Mar-Apr;52(3-4):200-7. PMID: 21236295

Schneider JA, Makelarski JA, Van Haitsma M, Lipton RB, Abramsohn E, Lauderdale DS, Lindau ST. Differential Access to Digital Communication Technology: Association with Health Survey Recruitment and Retention within an African-American, Underserved Urban Population. Journal of Urban Health. 2011 June; 88(3): 479-92. PMID: 21279451

Schneider JA, Dandona R, Pasupneti S, Lakshmi V, Liao C, Yeldandi V, Mayer K. Initial commitment to pre-exposure prophylaxis and circumcision for HIV prevention amongst Indian truck drivers. PLoS ONE. 2010 Jul 30;5(7):e11922. PMC 20689602

Schneider JA, Dude A, Dinaker M, Kumar V, Laumann EO, Holloway-Beth A, Oruganti G, Saluja GS, Chundi V, Yeldandi V, Mayer KH. General Hygiene, Sexual Risk Behavior and HIV Prevalence in Truck Drivers from Andhra Pradesh, South India: Implications for Prevention Interventions. International Journal of STD & AIDS. 2009; 20(1): 39-45.

Zhang Q, Lauderdale D, Mou S, Parish WI, Laumann EO, Schneider JA. Socioeconomic Disparity in Health-Care Seeking Behavior among Chinese Women with Genitourinary Symptoms. Journal of Women’s Health. 2009;18(11) 1833-1839. PMCID: 19951219

Kumar PSG, Dandona R, Schneider JARamesh YK, Dandona L. Outputs and cost of HIV prevention programmes for truck drivers in Andhra Pradesh, India, BMC Health Services Research, 2009; 9:82. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-82

Schneider JA, Novel HIV Prevention Strategies – The Case for Andhra Pradesh. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2008; 26(1): 1-4.

Parish W, Hao Y, Laumann EO, Schneider JA. Genitourinary Symptoms in Urban China: A Population Based Study. International Journal of STD & AIDS. 2007; 18: 736-740.

Schneider JA, Shaheen AA, Ackers M, Parekh B, Chen HY, Graham P, Gurwith M, Mayer K, Novak RM. Mucosal HIV Binding Antibody and Neutralizing Activity among High-Risk HIV Uninfected Female HIV Vaccine Trial Participants. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2007; 196: 1637-44. PMCID: 18008247

Schneider JA, Gurcharan S, Oruganti G, Dass S, Tolentino J, Laumann EO, Yeldandi V, Pitrak D. HIV Infection Dynamics in Rural Andhra Pradesh South India: A Sexual Network Analysis Exploratory Study. AIDS Care. 2007; 19(9): 1171-1176. PMCID: 18058402

Major Courses

• HSTD 31300 - Local and Global Approaches to Infectious Disease Epidemiology
• HSTD 30030 - Introduction to Global Health
• MEDC 31600 - Global HIV Epidemiology and Community Outreach

Other Activities

• Faculty, Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago
• Director, Global Health Programs, Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago
• HIV Clinical Care Provider, Grand Boulevard Clinic, ACCESS Community Health Network, Chicago