People

Sahnah Lim
Sahnah Lim, PhD, MPH, MIA
NYU Langone Health - Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
Email: sahnah.lim@nyulangone.org
Education
PhD, Public Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
MPH, Public Health, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
MIA, International Affairs, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs
Research Interests
Substance use, HIV, Sexual and gender minority populations, Sex workers, Gender-based violence, Gender equity
BIO
Sahnah Lim is an assistant professor who is leading the Gender Equity scientific track at the NYU School of Medicine’s Section for Health Equity. As a health disparities researcher, she conducts applied, community-engaged studies that seek to address gender-related health issues among hard-to-reach populations such as sex workers and immigrant survivors of gender-based violence. She is particularly interested in the intersection of multiple marginalized identities and its impact on mental health, substance use, and HIV. She specializes in mixed-methods research and is an expert in psychosocial statistics and survey methods.
Projects
Principal Investigator, Violence, Substance Use, Sleep Disturbances, and Hypertension Among Women with HIV: A Syndemic Approach (VH2S2). Active
Principal Investigator, Gender Equity and Health. Completed
Publications

Recent

Duncan DT, Park SH, Dharma C, Torrats-Espinosa G, Contreras J, Scheinmann R, Watson K, Herrera C, Schneider JA, Khan M, Lim S, Trinh-Shevrin C, Radix A (2024).
Neighborhood safety and neighborhood police violence are associated with psychological distress among English- and Spanish-speaking transgender women of color in New York City: Finding from the TURNNT cohort study
Journal of Urban Health, 101 (3), 557-570. doi: 10.1007/s11524-024-00879-3. PMCID: PMC11189871.

Chin JJ, Forbes N, Lim S, Takahashi LM (2024).
Correlates of HIV testing among Asian immigrant female sex workers in New York City and Los Angeles County
AIDS Education and Prevention, 36 (3), 182-197. doi: 10.1521/aeap.2024.36.3.182.

Gatanaga O, Palamar JJ, Lim S (2024).
Prevalence of substance use among Asian sexual minority individuals in the United States, 2015-2020
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 56 (2), 257-263. doi: 10.1080/02791072.2023.2181242. PMCID: PMC10460460.

Lim S, Mantsios A, Braithwaite RS, Pitts R (2024).
A secondary gendered analysis of interviews with Latina cisgender women indicated for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
AIDS Care, 36 (5), 692-702. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2024.2325070.

Onakomaiya D, Ali SH, Islam T, Mohaimin S, Kaur J, Pillai S, Monir A, Mehdi A, Mehmood R, Mammen S, Hussain S, Zanowiak J, Wyatt LC, Alam G, Lim S, Islam NS (2024).
Stakeholder perspectives on the impact of COVID-19 on the implementation of a community-clinic linkage model in New York City
Prevention Science [Epub 2023 May 5]. doi: 10.1007/s11121-023-01534-0. PMCID: PMC10161181.


Notable

Lim S, Brantley ML, Footer K, Nail JE, Davis W, Sherman SG (2017).
Psychosocial characteristics and sexual risk behaviors among female exotic dancers who have sex with women in Baltimore: A brief report
Journal of Bisexuality, 17 (3), 318-324. doi: 10.1080/15299716.2017.1359129.

Lim S, Peitzmeier S, Cange C, Papworth E, LeBreton M, Tamoufe U, Kamla A, Billong S, Fokam P, Njindam I, Decker MR, Sherman SG, Baral S (2015).
Violence against female sex workers in Cameroon: Accounts of violence, harm reduction, and potential solutions
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 68 (Suppl 2), S241-S247. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000000440.

Dr. Lim's ResearchGate Profile