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.
- Shu Xu, Philippa J Clarke, De Lott, Lindsey B., Nguyen, Mickey, Josh Ehrlich. 2025. Driving status, avoidance, and visual impairment among older adults in the United States. Journal of Transport & Health 42:102036.
- Shu Xu, Yan-Jhu Su, Josh Ehrlich, Qian Song. 2025. Associations Between Self-Reported Visual Difficulty, Age of Onset, and Cognitive Function Trajectories Among Chinese Older Adults. Journal of Aging and Health 37(5-6):305-316.
- Chen, Yu, Kim, Minchul, Lundeen, Elizabeth A., Rolka, Deborah B., Josh Ehrlich, Newman-Casey, Paula Anne, Elam, Angela, Rein, David, Holliday, Christopher, Saaddine, Jinan. 2025. Income-Related Inequalities in Vision Difficulty Among US Adults, 1999-2018. American Journal of Ophthalmology
- Huang, Alan Y., Josh Ehrlich, Hamedani, Ali G.. 2025. Visual impairment, age-related eye disease, and sleep dysfunction in older adults. Eye
- Marmamula, Srinivas, ..., Josh Ehrlich, Achyuta Rasendra Adhvaryu, et al.. 2025. Cognitive Level Enhancement through Vision Exams and Refraction (CLEVER): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials 26(1):1-10.
- Xu, Shu, Burr, Jeffrey A, Song, Qian, Josh Ehrlich. 2025. Self-Reported Visual Difficulty and Mortality Risk Among Older Adults: The Mediating Role of Recurrent Falls. Innovation in Aging
- Niranjani Nagarajan, Karolina Leziak, Yunshu Zhou, Rachel Mumby, Mengyao Hu, Lauren E. Ferrante, Lindsey B. De Lott, David B. Rein, Josh Ehrlich. 2025. Association between visual impairment and recurrent hospitalizations in older US adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 73(3):782-790.
- 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)