Dr. Maryam Al-Mujtaba, PhD, MSN, MPH, RN

Maryam Al-Mujtaba is a nurse scientist and PhD prepared global health researcher with more than 15 years of clinical, behavioral, and population health research experience across sub-Saharan Africa and North America. Her work focuses on HIV prevention and treatment, maternal and child health, health equity, cervical cancer prevention, and implementation science, with particular expertise in research involving adolescent girls and young women.

She completed her PhD in Nursing at Duke University, where she developed the INFORM-HERS theoretical framework for understanding multilevel determinants of HIV acquisition among adolescent girls and young women. She is a postdoctoral researcher building on this work at the University of Michigan.

Maryam served as the Nigerian Site Coordinator for the D2EFT multinational clinical trial, a 14 country study whose findings contributed to WHO HIV treatment guidelines and were published in Lancet HIV in 2024. She also designed and coordinated Nigeria's first nurse led cervical cancer see and treat program across six hospital sites.

In North America she served as the Ontario lead for the National Transitions Study, contributing to research related to cancer survivorship care. She is a member of the GBD Collaborator Network associated with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and has more than 12 peer reviewed publications.