Marta Mulawa
Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing
Assistant Research Professor of Global Health
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Marta Mulawa
Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing
Assistant Research Professor of Global Health
Marta Mulawa, PhD, MHS, is an assistant professor in the Duke University School of Nursing with a secondary appointment in the Duke Global Health Institute. Dr. Mulawa received her PhD in Health Behavior at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her MHS in International Health with a focus on Social and Behavioral Interventions from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to her faculty appointment, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Duke's NIH-funded Interdisciplinary Research Training Program in AIDS (IRTPA).
Dr. Mulawa’s research focuses on improving population health by examining and addressing social and behavioral determinants of HIV treatment and prevention outcomes in global settings. To inform the development of these HIV interventions, her research also aims to improve our understanding of how social networks influence various HIV-related behaviors.
Dr. Mulawa is the recipient of a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. The focus of this research is to develop and pilot test a mobile health (mHealth) intervention to promote ART adherence by engaging the social networks of this population. She is also a Co-Investigator on a NIH-funded R01 evaluating the effectiveness of an online, mobile-optimized intervention to reduce stigma and improve HIV prevention and care behaviors among vulnerable populations in the United States.
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Janek SE, Matos LA, Hatoum S, Mulawa MI, Ledbetter L, Relf MV. Racism, homophobia, and the sexual health of young Black men who have sex with men in the United States: A systematic review. PloS one. 2025 Jan;20(1):e0316532.Mulawa MI, Docherty SL, Bailey DE, Gonzalez-Guarda RM, Lipkus IM, Randolph SD, et al. Correction: A Hybrid Pragmatic and Factorial Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial for an Anti-racist, Multilevel Intervention to Improve Mental Health Equity in High Schools. Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research. 2024 Aug;25(6):1016.Mulawa MI, Docherty SL, Bailey DE, Gonzalez-Guarda RM, Lipkus IM, Randolph SD, et al. A Hybrid Pragmatic and Factorial Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial for an Anti-racist, Multilevel Intervention to Improve Mental Health Equity in High Schools. Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research. 2024 Jul;25(Suppl 3):486–96.Mulawa MI, Hoare J, Knippler ET, Mtukushe B, Matiwane M, Muessig KE, et al. MASI, a Smartphone App to Improve Treatment Adherence Among South African Adolescents and Young Adults With HIV: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR research protocols. 2023 Sep;12:e47137.
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