Professor Masvawure is a medical anthropologist, global health researcher and feminist scholar, whose research focuses on issues of gender, sexuality and health. She has a primary interest in the HIV pandemic and has done research on HIV prevention and treatment in Africa. She is a faculty member in WPI’s master of science in Global Health degree program. Masvawure’s active research projects currently include: a storytelling project to document the history of AIDS Project Worcester, the oldest AIDS service organization in central Massachusetts; a project to promote racial equity at a community health center in Worcester; and a project on menstrual wellbeing on college campuses. Masvawure can speak about her areas of research interest in HIV, menstruation, menopause, and the need to re-imagine the U.S. and wealthier countries as sites for global health intervention.