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Proscovia Nabunya

Proscovia Nabunya’s global research focuses on HIV-stigma reduction interventions, mental health, and family and community-based support systems as protective factors for the development and well-being of children and families impacted by HIV/AIDS. She has research expertise in poverty-reduction strategies that utilize asset-based interventions and their impact on children and families’ social, economic and health well-being in HIV-impacted communities in sub-Saharan Africa.

Nabunya’s current NIMH-funded study known as Suubi4Stigma examines two evidence-based interventions, i.e. multiple family group and group cognitive behavioral therapy, to address individual and family-level HIV-associated stigma among adolescents living with HIV and their families in Uganda.

She is a principal investigator of two projects: an NICHD-funded Suubi+Adherence-R2, aimed at examining the longitudinal HIV treatment adherence outcomes among youth living with HIV transitioning into young adulthood; and NIMH-funded Bridges-R2, evaluating the long-term impact of an economic empowerment intervention on HIV risk prevention and care continuum outcomes among orphaned youth transitioning to young adulthood.

Additionally, Nabunya serves as the co-director of the International Center for Child Health and Development (ICHAD). This center works to reduce poverty and improve public health outcomes for children and families in low-resource settings in sub-Saharan Africa.

Before joining the Brown School, Nabunya completed the Provost’s Post-Doctoral and Transitional Program for Academic Diversity Fellowship at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work.

Proscovia Nabunya

Areas of Focus:

  • HIV stigma and shame
  • Mental health
  • Family and community-based support systems
  • Children, youth and families impacted by HIV
  • Intervention research and mixed method approaches

In The News

Faculty members awarded $3 million NIMH grant for HIV prevention in Africa
January 24, 2025

Ssewamala, Nabunya named 2025 SSWR Fellows
January 7, 2025

Naseh awarded grant to improve refugee health in Missouri
December 17, 2024

NIH funding to build research capacity among refugee youth in Uganda
September 20, 2024

Study to focus on support for young adults in Uganda
August 26, 2024

Group-Based Interventions Potentially Address HIV Stigma Among Adolescents Living with Virus 
March 22, 2024

ICHAD Celebrates its 10th Anniversary, and the Lives it Has Changed in Sub-Saharan Africa
April 10, 2023

Nabunya, Cavazos-Rehg Awarded $1.2M Funding to Study Depression Among Youth With HIV in Uganda
October 17, 2022

Brown School Welcomes 12 Dynamic New Faculty Members, Fall 2022
September 8, 2022

NIMH Awards $2.4 Million for HIV/AIDS Research with Orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa
April 2, 2022

Ssewamala Awarded $3.2 Million by NIMH to Address HIV Stigma in Ugandan Boarding Schools
September 27, 2021

$3.4 million NIH Grant Funds Research for HIV-Positive Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa
August 25, 2020

Ssewamala Nabunya to lead NIHfunded study on ways to reduce the stigma of HIVAIDS among adolescents in Uganda
July 13, 2020

Brown School Recognizes Faculty Authors and Editors
May 7, 2020