Welcome Zain Mensah, an undergraduate psychology major (pre-med) student who was awarded the 2024-25 NIH supported DC-CFAR scholar award. His research will focus on mapping effective collaboration between researchers and adults living with PHIV. Welcome to lab!

Garima was selected as one of 11 participants in the 2024 cohort of Future Nobel Laureates Scholarship Program…and yes Garima is striking pose in Sweden. Proud!

A warm Bison welcome to Dina Al Ghabra (BS Psychological Sciences, Purdue University; MA, Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University). An incoming PhD Clinical Psychology student, Dina’s research focuses on cultural adaptation of evidence-based mental health interventions tailored in a Middle Eastern context. Excited for the work ahead!

…our research on police-perpetrated sexual violence against sex workers (Aydan @Hicks Symposium), intergenerational conversations about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda (Christine @Assoc for Psych Sciences), sickle cell disease identity (Tahra @Society for Pediatric Psychology). Impressive showing!

Bitter-(more) sweet when lab members launch their vocations post-Howard. To our scholars, activists, clinicians, and teachers, we are beyond proud. You know who you are…Haifa, Yajaira, Zion, Christine, and Alissa. Bison proud. Bison strong.

Victor was an invited moderator for a panel, Living Into Young Adulthood With Perinatal HIV at the Conference for Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), Denver. See this video clip of the audience singing happy birthday to his son - very cool. Also, listen to Kang’s presentation, Historic Evolution of HIV and Mental Well-Being Among Adults Living With Perinatally Acquired HIV.