Adeagbo, Watkins named OVPR Early Career Scholars

Published on January 25, 2023

Congratulations to Oluwafemi Adeagbo and Shannon Lea Watkins, assistant professors of community and behavioral health, who were named 2023 OVPR Early Career Scholars. These one-year awards of up to $30,000 are intended to help tenure-track assistant professors develop competitive proposals and secure an externally funded award.

The titles of their grant projects are:

Portrait of Oluwafemi Adeagbo, professor in the Department of Community and Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa College of Public Health

Oluwafemi Adeagbo: Identifying the barriers to Black/African American MSM engagement with HIV prevention services in Iowa

Portrait of Prof. Shannon Watkins of the Department of Community and Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa College of Public Health.

Shannon Lea Watkins: Learning from QueerTok: Developing interactive interview methods to illuminate online experiences of sexual and gender minority young adults