Celebrating Juliet’s Next Chapter!
August 15, 2025
This summer we said a sad goodbye to Juliet as she returned to Harvard to begin her PhD in early childhood development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Juliet has been with our team since the very beginning – first as a graduate research assistant when Dr. Jeong was a postdoc, and then as the first full-time staff member to join him at Emory. Over the past five years, she has played a central role in every project, supporting students and our growing team, designing our Familia Bora intervention, training enumerators, and analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data from studies in Kenya and Tanzania. She traveled to East Africa more than ten times, co-authored over 15 papers, and helped establish the collaborative, respectful, and supportive spirit that defines the lab today. Juliet has left a lasting mark on the team, and while she will be greatly missed, we are thrilled to see all that she will accomplish in her doctoral training and beyond!!
Refresher training for Community Health Workers
July 25, 2025
TAHEA conducted a refresher training with the CHWs delivering Familia Bora following the program’s first month of implementation. The program is off to a great start, and CHWs shared many thoughtful reflections about their experiences facilitating the sessions so far. They are quickly gaining new skills, confidence, and enthusiasm in their roles, and we are excited to see how their growth continues to strengthen Familia Bora in the months ahead.
launched RCT of Familia Bora in Mwanza, Tanzania
June 1, 2025
Together with our partner TAHEA, we have officially launched the cluster-RCT of our parenting program (Familia Bora) in Sengerema and Misungwi districts in Mwanza, Tanzania! We enrolled nearly 400 households (fathers+mother+young children) and completed our first training for community health workers to deliver our program. We will use mixed-methods and combine an impact and process evaluation to assess the effectiveness of the program, understand how the program is implemented, and what factors contribute to its success.
Congrats to our MPH students!
May 12, 2025
Congratulations to our incredible graduating MPH research assistants: Zane Maguet, Megan Louttit, Nathan Yang, and Malia Uyehara! We are so grateful for your contributions to our research and are excited to see what you all accomplish next!
Congrats to Malia on Her Nomination for the Charles C. Shepard Award!
May 1, 2025
Congratulations to Malia Uyehara who was selected by the Global Health faculty as the department’s nominee for the Charles C. Shepard Award, which honors the most outstanding master’s thesis at Rollins. Malia’s thesis, “Gender Differences in Caregiver Perceptions of Financial Incentives and their Impacts on Attendance in a Parenting Program in Mwanza, Tanzania,” integrates mixed-methods and highlights gender differences in how financial incentives influence caregiver attendance in the pilot of Familia Bora.
TAHEA Visit to Emory
April 21, 2025
We were thrilled to host our collaborators from the Tanzania Home Economics Organization (TAHEA-Mwanza) for an 8-day visit to Emory to plan the next phase of our parenting program and implementation research study that we’ll be launching this summer in Mwanza, Tanzania. It was a very productive meeting and a wonderful time for our teams to reconnect and for many of our students to meet TAHEA in person for the first time!
