Maiya Block Ngaybe

Ms. Block Ngaybe will spend her fellowship year at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda under the mentorship of Agnes Kiragga, PhD, Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD, John Ehiri, PhD, MPH, MSc, and Maia Ingram, MPH. Her research will focus on determinants of prospective uptake of a preventative HIV vaccine among the most at-risk populations in Uganda.

Ms. Block Ngaybe is a PhD Candidate at the University of Arizona. She enjoys conducting research and teaching and would love to be a professor at a university at some point in her career. She also hopes to have a career practicing health promotion, perhaps within the university where she works, or with the US government or a non-governmental organization. Her main career and personal influences have been her parents, a doctor and nutritionist, who inspire her in their work helping serve a rural border town in Arizona. She has also been highly influenced by her mentor and advisor, Purnima Madhivanan, a leader in global health and health advocacy and justice.