Fred Ssewamala, PhD, Proscovia Nabunya, PhD, Brown School, & Mary McKay, PhD, executive vice provost, & public health faculty scholars, have been named 2025 Fellows of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR).
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NIH funding to build research capacity among refugee youth in Uganda (Links to an external site)
Public Health Faculty Scholars & Brown School assistant professors have received $150,000 from the Fogarty International Ctr for RCap4Youth: Research Capacity for Refugee Youth, a supplement to the ICHAD’s ACHIEVE D43 Training Program.
Addressing poverty key to better TB and HIV treatment in Uganda (Links to an external site)
Fred Ssewamala, PhD, & Proscovia Nabunya, PhD, Brown School and Public Health Faculty Scholars, co-authored a correspondence in The Lancet highlighting tackling poverty as a key strategy for improving HIV and TB treatment outcomes in Uganda.
Ssewamala awarded $3.3 millions in grant fund research for adolescent girls transitioning into young adulthood in Uganda (Links to an external site)
The research team of Fred Ssewamala, PhD, Proscovia Nabunya, PhD, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, PhD, & Derek Brown, PhD, Brown School, & Public Health Faculty Scholars, has been awarded a grant from the NIMH for a study focused on Ugandan adolescent girls
Ugandan Women’s Autonomy Key to Safer Sex (Links to an external site)
Fred Ssewamala, PhD, professor, Brown School, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, co-authored a correspondence in The Lancet on how empowering Ugandan women to develop autonomy can reduce their exposure to HIV, creating a safer environment.
Ugandan women’s autonomy key to safer sex (Links to an external site)
Fred Ssewamala, PhD, professor, Brown School, & Public Health Faculty Scholar, co-authored a correspondence in The Lancet on how empowering Ugandan women to develop autonomy can reduce their exposure to HIV, creating a safer environment.
Ssewamala awarded $3.5M to study interventions in Uganda (Links to an external site)
Fred Ssewamala, the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor at the Brown School, and Byron Powell, co-director of the Center for Dissemination & Implementation at the Institute for Public Health, have won a five-year $3.5 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NIH-based) for a new study in Uganda.