BUSSW PhD Student Awarded Funding to Attend APHA Junior Investigator Writing Workshop
Emily Lamunu, a PhD candidate at Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), participated in the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Junior Investigator Writing Workshop this spring in support of her scholarship on global social work and public health policy.
The workshop, held in Annapolis, MD, offered Lamunu and other early career public health researchers intensive, hands-on writing training aimed at improving career and scholarly success.
Lamunu’s travel and attendance was fully funded by APHA – the largest public health professional organization in the US and host of the field’s most-attended professional gathering worldwide.
Emily Lamunu is a doctoral candidate in BUSSW’s PhD in Social Work program whose research focuses on children and adolescents living with HIV/AIDS. A Uganda native, she has said she “hopes to become part of a new era of socially conscious leaders [that] Africa needs, where policy, global health, research, advocacy and social justice are central to humanitarian work.”
In addition to her doctoral work at BUSSW, Lamunu is a fellow at the School’s Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH) and was a 2023 Summer in the Field Fellow of the BU Global Development Policy Center. She holds a master’s degree in social work from Baylor University and a bachelor’s in business administration from Makerere University in Uganda.