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Associate Professor Nina Yamanis has been awarded the Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Faculty Award for Outstanding Community Engagement.

Yamanis studies how social and structural determinants are linked to health disparities globally and locally, and designs community-based interventions to reduce these disparities. She has conducted research in Tanzania since 2006; her studies in Tanzania focus on how social networks influence the HIV risk and protective behaviors of young people and on Tanzania's national COVID-19 response and vaccine rollout. She also researches HIV in the District of Columbia, focusing specifically on HIV prevention for Latina/o/x immigrants, and is Associate Director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Core of the District of Columbia’s Center for AIDS Research. 

Yamanis’ work has appeared in prestigious journals, including Annual Review of Public Health, Social Science and Medicine, AIDS and Behavior, Global Public Health, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, and PLOS NTDs. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She teaches courses on global health, pandemics, applied research, program planning, and development.

This past academic year, Nina also received the Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ 2023 Achievement Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Student Research and the Deputy Provost and Dean of Faculty’s Pilot Grant Award for faculty-student scholarly and creative collaborations.