Latino immigrant health: the role of community resilience and community health action

This research project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, proposes to understand how the community action model of a Federally Qualified Health Center, La Clinica del Pueblo (LCDP), produces resilience and affects Latino immigrants’ health within two distinct policy environments: Prince George’s County, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Learn more here. 

Transgender women of color study

This study aims to explore and develop a response to the burden of HIV among adolescent and adult transgender women of color (TWOC) living in Baltimore and Washington, DC. We hope it will inform future policy and how services for trans women are both developed and delivered. Learn more here. 

Using social networks to prevent HIV and partner violence among adolescent girls in Tanzania

Identifying where young women spend time together is the first step in this new research. Yamanis and her team will conduct interviews with at least 150 members of a community in Dar es Salaam, asking everyone from taxi drivers to sex workers where young girls hang out. Once they gather a list of locations, the team will observe how many girls hang out in each location, when they do so, and whether there are any group leaders. They will then interview girls from different social networks and craft HIV and IPV interventions based on the composition and norms of the networks. Read more here.