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Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health
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| Maria J. Wawer’s research activities focus on HIV, associated infections, and reproductive health in Uganda. In collaboration with colleagues at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Makerere University in Kampala, and at Johns Hopkins, in 1988 she established the Rakai Health Sciences Program (previously known as the Rakai Project), which has become one of the largest HIV research, prevention and care programs in Africa. Her research interests include molecular epidemiology, HIV and STD prevention trials, and risk factors (both behavioral and biological) for HIV and reproductive health, in general. She also has conducted reproductive health and HIV studies in Thailand, Brazil, Egypt, Morocco, and over 15 sub-Saharan countries including Sahel, and East and West Africa. In addition to her research activities, Dr. Wawer is a regular reviewer for a number of journals, including The Lancet, JID, AIDS, American Journal of Epidemiology, and JAIDS. Dr. Wawer serves on various advisory groups including the NIH Office of AIDS Research Working Group on Preventive Research, and is a member of the the NIH AIDS Clinical and Epidemiological (ACE) Study Section.
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