
Josh Ehrlich
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Dr. Ehrlich is an ophthalmologist and population health researcher. His research is focused on understanding and addressing the adverse impact of vision impairment and blindness on health, disability, and quality-of-life, with a particular focus on older adults. He is the principal investigator of NIH funded research in this field, and also collaborates with a number of large population-based studies on aging in the U.S. and globally to develop and implement measures of vision and eye health. Dr. Ehrlich is a Visiting Scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is also an invited member of the Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health and the Vision Loss Experts Group, a technical advisory group to the World Health Organization and the Global Burden of Disease project. Dr. Ehrlich co-directs the Jerome Jacobson Program in International Ophthalmology where his global health work is focused on research capacity building, systems strengthening, and collaborative research.
- Jason R. Smith, Alison R. Huang, Yunshu Zhou, Varshini Varadaraj, Bonnielin K. Swenor, Heather E. Whitson, Nicholas S. Reed, Jennifer A. Deal, Josh Ehrlich. 2024. Vision Impairment and the Population Attributable Fraction of Dementia in Older Adults. JAMA Ophthalmology
- Ramachandran, Rithambara, Josh Ehrlich, Stein, Joshua D.. 2024. How Do We Pay for Glaucoma Screening?. Journal of Glaucoma 33:S67-S70.
- Josh Ehrlich, Nichols, Emma, Chen, Yizhou, Nagarajan, Niranjani, Zeki Al Hazzouri, Adina, Reed, Nicholas S, Lee, Jinkook, Gross, Alden L. 2024. The influence of vision impairment on the measurement of cognition in older adults in India: Findings from LASI-DAD. Innovation in Aging 8(9):igae071.
- Srinivas Marmamula, Thirupathi Reddy Kumbham, Josh Ehrlich, Suvarna Alladi, David E Bloom, David S Friedman. 2024. Cross-sectional study of cognitive impairment and visual impairment among the elderly population in residential care in India: the Hyderabad Ocular Morbidity in Elderly Study (HOMES). BMJ Open 14(7):e084348.
- Aleksandra Zarska, Sharmi Amin, Josh Ehrlich, Hari Conjeevaram. 2024. Improving Documentation of and Access to Diabetic Retinopathy Screening at a Student-Run Free Clinic. Journal of Student-Run Clinics 10(1)
- Katie Curran, ..., Josh Ehrlich, et al.. 2024. Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by diabetic retinopathy: a meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020. Eye
- Shu Xu, Yan-Jhu Su, Josh Ehrlich, Qian Song. 2024. Associations Between Self-Reported Visual Difficulty, Age of Onset, and Cognitive Function Trajectories Among Chinese Older Adults. Journal of Aging and Health
- Sui Hsien Wong, Rebhi Abuzaitoun, Wayne T. Cornblath, Eric R. Eggenberger , Sangeeta Khanna , Tatiana Deveney, Josh Ehrlich, Chris A. Andrews , Carolina Barnett-Tapia, Lindsey B. De Lott. 2024. Multicenter Validation of the Ocular Myasthenia Gravis Rating Scale Questionnaire. Neurology 104(1)
- Niranjani Nagarajan, Karolina Leziak, Yunshu Zhou, Rachel Mumby, Mengyao Hu, Lauren E. Ferrante, Lindsey B. De Lott, David B. Rein, Josh Ehrlich. 2024. Association between visual impairment and recurrent hospitalizations in older US adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Lee, Moon J., Almidani, Louay, Samuel, Laura, Swenor, Bonnielin K., Josh Ehrlich, Varadaraj, Varshini. 2024. Vision impairment and food insecurity in the national health and aging trends study. Frontiers in Epidemiology 4:1353083.