Michele Shedlin

Michele G. Shedlin, PhD, is a Professor in the NYU Meyers College of Nursing, an Adjunct Professor in the College of Dentistry, and a visiting professor at the University of Szeged, Hungary. She is a medical anthropologist with extensive experience in qualitative reproductive health, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS research in Africa, Latin America, and the United States. She has designed and implemented behavioral studies at the community, university, and national levels, to inform and evaluate prevention and care. She has taught for ten years in the doctoral program as well as taught Narrative Medicine in FAS. Prof. Shedlin mentors new researchers at the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research and the VA and NYU School of Medicine.

Shedlin was a founding member of the Meyers Faculty Council and has served as Deputy Director of the WHO Collaborating Center in Gerontologic Nursing, the Provost's Academy Advisory Committee, and the Cross University Faculty Forum. Shedlin has chaired the Council on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (at NYU Meyers and School of Dentistry) and served on the Advisory Committee of the NYU Center for Bioethics.

Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, Shedlin headed her own research consulting firm. She was also a faculty member at Columbia University School of Public Health and the University of Texas Leavell Chair in Nursing and Public Health and co-director of the NIH Hispanic Health Disparities Research Center. In 2013, she was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Szeged, in Hungary.