Associate Professor Shailendra Sawleshwarkar
Program Director, Postgraduate Coursework Programs, Sydney Medical School
Clinical Academic, Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre, Western Sydney Local Health District
Associate Professor Shailendra Sawleshwarkar is a physician working in HIV, STIs and sexual health. He is a Clinical Academic at the Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre, which provides high quality clinical services in sexual health and is an internationally renowned research and teaching centre within the University of Sydney. After completing his MD in Dermatology and Venereology (STIs) in India followed by further training in HIV & STIs research in London, Dr Sawleshwarkar migrated to Australia in 2006. He has extensive experience in clinical practice, education and research in diverse settings. Given the importance of HIV and other STIs to public health in Australia and worldwide, Dr Sawleshwarkar is passionate about developing educational and research partnerships for global health.
A/Prof Sawleshwarkar’s research interests include global health education, One health, management of HIV and STIs in primary care, molecular epidemiology of HIV, STIs/HIV in culturally and linguisticallly diverse populations. He has helped to develop the Australian Molecular Epidemiology Network-HIV (AMEN-HIV ), a national network of hospitals and reference laboratories that studies HIV subtype diversity and drug resistance in Australia. He also works with research groups in India and Australia with a focus on HIV and TB drug resistance
He has keen interest in management of HIV and STIs in primary care and has been invovled in number of studies that investigated STI and HIV testing and management in general practice as part of the BEACH collaboration. He is currently working on global health education framework for postgraduate programs in public health in Indian academic institutions.
HIV/STIs education; Sexual and Reproductve Health, Global health; E-learning; Capacity building in HIV and STIs.
The University of Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases (Sydney ID)
(Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences) Collaborative partnership in Health professional education research. | |
(Manipal Academy of Higher Education) Academic collaboration in research and education in infectious diseases and One Health. | |
(Public health Foundation of India) Educational and research collaboration in global health education, HIV and STIs. Capacity building program and development and delivery of 'Certificate course in STIs and HIV/AIDS'. Educational research in global health competencies for public health education in India. | |
(University of Gadjah Mada) Capacity building of medical, nursing and public health professionals in the Yogyakarta region in HIV, STIs, Sexual and Reproductive health. | |
(National AIDS Council, Ministry of Health) Capacity building program for the MoH staff in HIV and STIs through intensive in Sydney | |
(University of Washington) Joint Annual Short Course in HIV and STIs in Syndey |
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| Investigation of factors impacting on sexual health literacy access to services and sexual and reproductive outcomes among adolescent and young Rohingya refugee women in Bangladesh | Muhammad Anwar HOSSAIN |
| Assessment of institutional readiness, faculty capacity and governance related to the digital education of health professionals in India | Anjali SHARMA |
Publications
Book Chapters
- Mindel, A., Sawleshwarkar, S. (2013). Physical Barrier Methods: Acceptance, Use, and Effectiveness. In Lawrence R. Stanberry, Susan L. Rosenthal (Eds.), Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Vaccines, Prevention, and Control, (pp. 189-211). London, UK: Elsevier. [More Information]
Journals
- Khatib, M., Sinha, A., Gaidhane, S., Upadhyay, S., Waghmare, N., Anil, A., Saxena, D., Sawleshwarkar, S., Simkhada, P., Gaidhane, A., et al (2024). Effect of IV ferric carboxy maltose for moderate/severe anemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Medicine, 11. [More Information]
- Alinejad Mofrad, S., Green, H., Sawleshwarkar, S., Alananzeh, I., Fernandez, R. (2024). Experiences Relating to Sexual Well-Being Among Muslim Gynecological Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies. Women's Health Reports, 5(1), 530-545. [More Information]
- Ju, I., Elhindi, J., Hook, M., Melov, S., Sawleshwakar, S., Yapa, H., Zablotska, I., Pasupathy, D. (2024). Sexually transmitted infections: Prevalence and clinical outcomes among pregnant women in Western Sydney. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 166(1), 107-114. [More Information]
2024
- Khatib, M., Sinha, A., Gaidhane, S., Upadhyay, S., Waghmare, N., Anil, A., Saxena, D., Sawleshwarkar, S., Simkhada, P., Gaidhane, A., et al (2024). Effect of IV ferric carboxy maltose for moderate/severe anemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Medicine, 11. [More Information]
- Alinejad Mofrad, S., Green, H., Sawleshwarkar, S., Alananzeh, I., Fernandez, R. (2024). Experiences Relating to Sexual Well-Being Among Muslim Gynecological Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies. Women's Health Reports, 5(1), 530-545. [More Information]
- Ju, I., Elhindi, J., Hook, M., Melov, S., Sawleshwakar, S., Yapa, H., Zablotska, I., Pasupathy, D. (2024). Sexually transmitted infections: Prevalence and clinical outcomes among pregnant women in Western Sydney. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 166(1), 107-114. [More Information]
2023
- Khatib, M., Gaidhane, A., Upadhyay, S., Telrandhe, S., Saxena, D., Simkhada, P., Sawleshwarkar, S., Zahiruddin, Q. (2023). Interventions for promoting and optimizing breastfeeding practices: An overview of systematic review. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. [More Information]
2022
- Walsh, M., Pattanaik, A., Vyas, N., Saxena, D., Webb, C., Sawleshwarkar, S., Mukhopadhyay, C. (2022). A biogeographical description of the wild waterbird species associated with high-risk landscapes of Japanese encephalitis virus in India. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 69(5), e3015-e3023. [More Information]
- Walsh, M., Pattanaik, A., Vyas, N., Saxena, D., Webb, C., Sawleshwarkar, S., Mukhopadhyay, C. (2022). High-risk landscapes of Japanese encephalitis virus outbreaks in India converge on wetlands, rain-fed agriculture, wild Ardeidae, and domestic pigs and chickens. International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(5), 1408-1418. [More Information]
- Khatib, M., Sinha, A., Mishra, G., Quazi, S., Gaidhane, S., Saxena, D., Gaidhane, A., Bhardwaj, P., Sawleshwarkar, S., Zahiruddin, Q. (2022). WASH to control COVID-19: A rapid review. Frontiers in Public Health, 10. [More Information]
2021
- Sawleshwarkar, S., Zodpey, S., Negin, J. (2021). Indian Public Health Students' Perspectives on Global Health Education. Frontiers in Public Health, 8, 614744. [More Information]
- Walsh, M., Bhat, R., Nagarajan, V., Narayanan, P., Vyas, N., Sawleshwarkar, S., Mukhopadhyay, C. (2021). Low mammalian species richness is associated with Kyasanur Forest disease outbreak risk in deforested landscapes in the Western Ghats, India. One Health, 13, 100299. [More Information]
- Piraveenan, M., Sawleshwarkar, S., Walsh, M., Zablotska-Manos, I., Bhattacharyya, S., Farooqui, H., Bhatnagar, T., Karan, A., Murhekar, M., Zodpey, S., Pattison, P., Zomaya, A., et al (2021). Optimal governance and implementation of vaccination programmes to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Royal Society Open Science, 8(6), 210429. [More Information]
2020
- Sawleshwarkar, S., Zodpey, S., Negin, J. (2020). "Public health is global": examining Indian stakeholders' perspectives on Global Health education. BMC Public Health, 20(1), 1259. [More Information]
- Richardson, D., Chan, H., Bopage, R., Lewis, D., Sawleshwarkar, S., Chung, C., Kok, J. (2020). HIV-1 subtype variability and transmitted drug resistance in a culturally diverse population in Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Sexual Health, 17(4), 377-380. [More Information]
- Walsh, M., Sawleshwarkar, S., Hossain, M., Mor, S. (2020). Whence the next pandemic? The intersecting global geography of the animal-human interface, poor health systems and air transit centrality reveals conduits for high-impact spillover. One Health, 11, 1-8. [More Information]
2019
- Dessalegn, N., Hailemichael, R., Shewa-amare, A., Sawleshwarkar, S., Lodebo, B., Amberbir, A., Hillman, R. (2019). HIV Disclosure: HIV-positive status disclosure to sexual partners among individuals receiving HIV care in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. PloS One, 14(2), 1-17. [More Information]
- Bateson, D., Black, K., Sawleshwarkar, S. (2019). The Guttmacher-Lancet Commission on sexual and reproductive health and rights: how does Australia measure up? Medical Journal of Australia, 210(6), 250-252.e1. [More Information]
2018
- Pinto, A., Hawke, K., Castley, A., Chibo, D., Di Giallonardo, F., Cooper, C., Sawleshwarkar, S., Kelleher, A., Dwyer, D. (2018). HIV-1 subtype diversity, transmitted drug resistance and phylogenetics in Australia. Future Virology, 13(8), 575-584. [More Information]
2017
- Castley, A., Sawleshwarkar, S., Varma, R., Herring, B., Thapa, K., Dwyer, D., Chibo, D., Nguyen, N., Hawke, K., Ratcliff, R., Garsia, R., et al (2017). A national study of the molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 in Australia 2005-2012. PloS One, 12(5), 1-17. [More Information]
- Sawleshwarkar, S., Negin, J. (2017). A review of global health competencies for postgraduate public health education. Frontiers in Public Health, 5(MAR), 1-12. [More Information]
- Tomlins, L., Sawleshwarkar, S., Lewis, D. (2017). Responding to Australia's chlamydia epidemic. Medicine Today, 18(9), 54-57.
2015
- Sawleshwarkar, S., Dwyer, D. (2015). Antivirals for herpes simplex viruses. BMJ, 351, 1-5. [More Information]
- Kim, M., Truong (Osborne), N., James, V., Bosnjak, L., Sandgren, K., Harman, A., Nasr, N., Bertram, K., Olbourne, N., Sawleshwarkar, S., Cunningham, A., et al (2015). Relay of herpes simplex virus between Langerhans cells and dermal dendritic cells in human skin. PLoS Pathogens, 11(4), 1-19. [More Information]
2014
- Santella, A., Pollack, A., Harrison, C., Sawleshwarkar, S., Britt, H., Hillman, R. (2014). Management rates of sexually transmissible infections by Australian general practitioners, 2000-2012. Sexual Health, 11(1), 52-57. [More Information]
2013
- Sawleshwarkar, S., Kakar, S., Jones, R., Lagios, K., Mindel, A., Hillman, R. (2013). Indian-born patients attending a sexual health clinic in Australia have differing characteristics to their Australian-born counterparts. Internal Medicine Journal, 43(12), 1327-1330. [More Information]
- Sharma, K., Zodpey, S., Quazi, S., Gaidhane, A., Sawleshwarkar, S., Khaparde, S. (2013). Mapping and opportunities of human resource capacity building initiatives for HIV/AIDS in India. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 6(1), 30-41. [More Information]
- Mindel, A., Sawleshwarkar, S. (2013). Physical Barrier Methods: Acceptance, Use, and Effectiveness. In Lawrence R. Stanberry, Susan L. Rosenthal (Eds.), Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Vaccines, Prevention, and Control, (pp. 189-211). London, UK: Elsevier. [More Information]
2011
- Sawleshwarkar, S., Harrison, C., Britt, H., Mindel, A. (2011). Determinants of HIV testing. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 87(5), 426-432. [More Information]
- Kakar, S., Sawleshwarkar, S., Russell, D., Hillman, R. (2011). Evaluation of sexual health medicine teaching at medical schools in Australia and New Zealand. Sexual Health, 8(1), 86-89. [More Information]
- Sharma, K., Zodpey, S., Quasi, S., Gaidhane, A., Sawleshwarkar, S., Khaparde, S. (2011). National AIDS Control Organisation's human resource capacity building initiatives for better response to HIV/AIDS in India. Australasian Medical Journal, 4(12), 638-644. [More Information]
2010
- Sawleshwarkar, S., Harrison, C., Britt, H., Mindel, A. (2010). Chlamydia testing in general practice in Australia. Sexual Health, 7(4), 484-490. [More Information]
- Kakar, S., Biggs, K., Chung, C., Sawleshwarkar, S., Mindel, A., Lagios, K., Hillman, R. (2010). Proposed quality standards for regional lymph node dissections in patients with melanoma. Sexual Health, 7(1), 3-7. [More Information]
2008
- Mindel, A., Sawleshwarkar, S. (2008). Condoms for sexually transmissible infection prevention: politics versus science. Sexual Health, 5(1), 1-8. [More Information]
2005
- Stebbing, J., Sawleshwarkar, S., Michailids, C., Jones, R., Bower, M., Mandalia, S., Nelson, M., Gazzard, B. (2005). Assessment of the efficacy of total lymphocyte counts as predictors of AIDS defining infections in HIV-1 infected people. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 81(959), 586-588. [More Information]
- Jones, R., Sawleshwarkar, S., Michailids, C., Jackson, A., Mandalia, S., Stebbing, J., Bower, M., Nelson, M., Gazzard, B., Moyle, G. (2005). Impact of antiretroviral choice on hypercholesterolaemia events: The role of the nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor backbone. HIV Medicine, 6(6), 396-402. [More Information]
2004
- Waters, L., Stebbing, J., Jones, R., Michailids, C., Sawleshwarkar, S., Mandalia, S., Bower, M., Nelson, M., Gazzard, B. (2004). A comparison of the CD4 response to antiretroviral regimens in patients commencing therapy with low CD4 counts. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 54(2), 503-507. [More Information]
- Sawleshwarkar, S., salgaonkar, V., Oberai, C. (2004). Multicenter, Open-label, Non-comparative Study of a Combination of Polytar and Zinc Pyrithione Shampoo in the Management of Dandruff. Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, 70(1), 25-28.
2003
- Sawleshwarkar, S., salgaonkar, V., Oberai, C. (2003). Multicenter study to evaluate efficacy and irritation potential of benzoyl peroxide 4% cream in hydrophase base (Brevoxyl) in acne vulgaris. Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, 69(1), 19-22.
Selected Grants
2023
- PRECISE (Practitioner Readiness, Education and Capabilities, with Implementation Science Evaluation) Genomics Research Project, Ma A, Steinberg J, Barnett S, Wilkinson D, Monrouxe L, Cust A, Makeham M, Jamieson R, Smit A, Rankin N, Jones K, Dunlop K, Sawleshwarkar S, Bonner C, Boggs K, Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)/Genomics Health Futures Mission - 2022 MRFF Genomics Health Futures Mission
2018
- A biosurveillance incubator for zoonoses at the human-animal interface in South India, Walsh M, Mor S, Sawleshwarkar S, Office of Global Engagement/India Development Fund
