John Joska: doing important work in mental health and HIV

Abstract

Stepping into a newly created role in HIV Psychiatry in 2006, John Joska (Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town and University of Cape Town [UCT], South Africa) unknowingly landed on the springboard that would shape his future. A psychiatrist and subspecialist neuropsychiatrist, this was not a career path of choice, “but once I got into it”, he says, “I discovered that there was a goldmine of research and a wealth of researchers investigating HIV, mental health, and NeuroHIV.”