Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research

Shalanda A Bynum

Biography

Shalanda A Bynum is currently working at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. His/her research interest is based on HIV. He/she has published many articles in reputed journals.

Research Interest

Bynum is a sociobehavioral researcher with academic training in public health education and promotion. Her academic training focused on understanding the avenues through which policy, environmental, institutional, and individual factors influence health. Dr Bynum completed a National Cancer Institute (NCI) -funded postdoctoral fellowship in Behavioral Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center in 2011. Thereafter, she joined USUHS as an assistant professor in the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her research program focuses on cancer prevention and control, sexually transmitted infection prevention, and racial/ethnic health disparities. This program involves use of innovative communication approaches to reduce the discovery-delivery disconnect, community-based participatory research strategies and mixed-methodology approaches to gain a richer understanding of community problems and solutions, incorporation of culturally relevant behavioral theory, and recognizing and addressing the social determinants of health.