SIS Professor Nina Yamanis has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2026-27 for her project "Formative Research for a National Community Health Worker Program to Support HIV Prevention Services in Tanzania." 

Fulbright Scholar Awards are prestigious fellowships that offer scholars transformative opportunities to teach and conduct research abroad while strengthening their professional development and fostering long‑term connections that enrich their careers, campuses, and communities.

"I am deeply honored and excited to have been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Tanzania," Yamanis said. "This opportunity will allow me to build on nearly two decades of HIV prevention research in Tanzania by collaborating with colleagues, students, and communities to advance implementation science approaches to HIV prevention and PrEP access. Living and working in Tanzania during this period will strengthen my ongoing partnerships, deepen the impact of my research, and help support the development of sustainable, community-based strategies to reduce HIV infections both in Tanzania and globally."

Yamanis' project examines how Tanzania’s newly launched national community health worker (CHW) program can be leveraged to expand HIV prevention education and increase awareness, demand for, and access to PrEP, including the new long-acting injectable PrEP, lenacapavir. Working with partners at Mzumbe University, Yamanis will use implementation science methods to conduct stakeholder interviews and focus groups that will inform the development of a CHW HIV prevention training curriculum while also teaching and mentoring Master’s students in implementation science research methods.