About

Suzanne Maman is a social scientist trained in global public health. She received her MHS and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health. She served on the faculty at Johns Hopkins for 5 years, before taking a faculty position at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, where she has been since 2005. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Associate Dean for Global Health at Gillings. In her role as Associate Dean, she supports all research, teaching, and practice related to global health across the school. She co-leads an MPH concentration in Global Health and was instrumental in initiating a new BSPH degree in Community and Global Public Health. She also serves as the UNC Faculty Director for the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center. Dr. Maman has been developing, implementing, and evaluating HIV and violence prevention programs in sub-Saharan Africa for more than 20 years. She has had a long-standing collaboration with colleagues in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania where they have collaboratively developed and evaluated interventions to address the intersection between HIV and gender-based violence among women and young men. Her work has informed programs in Tanzania and South Africa and led to WHO guidance and clinical tools to support women during the HIV testing process. Most recently, Maman and colleagues completed the evaluation of an intervention that combined microfinance with peer health leadership training to reduce HIV and gender-based violence among the social networks of young men. This was the first intervention trial in Africa targeting social networks of young men to demonstrate a change in HIV risk behaviors. Her current work is focused on identifying aspects of the school environment in Tanzania that can be leveraged to improve youth mental health and promote well-being.

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