Speaker Series: Dr. Juliet Iwelunmor, December 2018
Dr. Juliet Iwelunmor
On December 4th, Dr. Juliet Iwelunmor, an Associate Professor in Behavioral Science and Health Education at the College for Public Health and Social Justice at Saint Louis University, made a presentation at the SMART Africa and ICHAD Speaker Series. Dr. Juliet’s presentation focused on the use of social innovations and social entrepreneurship to create sustainable health programs that enhance the health and well-being of young people in low and middle-income countries. Specifically, her research focuses on an innovative and participatory youth-friendly HIV self-testing project designed to expand HIV self-testing among youths in Nigeria. Dr. Juliet’s presentation provided the project background and rationale, approach, activities, progress made to date and the next steps. This session was attended by mostly graduate students from the social work, public health and business schools who got an opportunity to ask questions and comment on the research.