Awardee

Meagan Zarwell is an Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences and a member of the Academy for Population Health Innovation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her PhD in public health with a focus in community health science from LSU Health Sciences Center and completed a NRSA postdoctoral fellowship in HIV Prevention at the Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR) at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Meagan also has an MA in medical anthropology from the University of Memphis. Her research focuses on HIV prevention, social capital, and social connections among gay, bisexual, and same-gender-loving men, and transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive individuals.