{"id":68178,"date":"2024-07-08T15:46:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T19:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=68178"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:58:57","slug":"phd-student-apha-junior-investigator-writing-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/phd-student-apha-junior-investigator-writing-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSSW PhD Student Awarded Funding to Attend APHA Junior Investigator Writing Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/profile\/emily-lamunu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emily Lamunu<\/a>, a PhD candidate at Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), participated in the American Public Health Association\u2019s (APHA) Junior Investigator Writing Workshop this spring in support of her scholarship on global social work and public health policy.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Lamunu\u2019s travel and attendance was fully funded by APHA \u2013 the largest public health professional organization in the US and host of the field\u2019s most-attended professional gathering worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Lamunu is a doctoral candidate in BUSSW\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/academics\/phd-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PhD in Social Work program<\/a> whose research focuses on children and adolescents living with HIV\/AIDS. A Uganda native, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/profile\/emily-lamunu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she has said<\/a> she \u201chopes 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her doctoral work at BUSSW, Lamunu is a fellow at the School\u2019s Center for Innovation in Social Work &amp; Health (CISWH) and was a 2023 Summer in the Field Fellow of the BU Global Development Policy Center. She holds a master\u2019s degree in social work from Baylor University and a bachelor\u2019s in business administration from Makerere University in Uganda.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>View more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/category\/phd-program\/\"><strong>BUSSW PhD Program News<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Lamunu, a PhD candidate at Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), participated in the American Public Health Association\u2019s (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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14869,"featured_media":68179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7433,4057,7429],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82364,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68178\/revisions\/82364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}