Penn State University
Department of Biobehavioral Health
315 Health & Human Development East
University Park
PAUSA
16802
Biographical Sketch: Juliet Iwelunmor is currently a recipient of the Eunice Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Predoctoral Fellowship Award in the department of Biobehavioral Health at Penn State University for her research entitled: An interdisciplinary study on malaria burden in Sub-Saharan Africa. She was a 2009-2010 Albert and Lorraine Kligman Fellow in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State University. She has worked as graduate research assistant in a Fogarty International Grant on Global Health and Georesources Management in Ibadan, Nigeria and the National Institutes of Mental Health Capacity Building for research on HIV/AIDS Stigma in South Africa. She has also gained international research experience at The World Health Organization, Geneva Switzerland, through the Penn State-Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research (MHIRT) Program where she worked as an intern for the WHO Global InfoBase. Her research interests focuses on the influence of infectious diseases on child health, and family systems in Sub-Saharan Africa.