Manya Magnus PhD, MPH

Dr. Manya Magnus, Ph.D., MPH, is a Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. Dr. Magnus is the Co-Director of the school’s MPH Program in Epidemiology, Co-Director of the Clinical and Population Sciences Core of the NIH-funded DC Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR), and the Clinical Research Site Leader for the GW HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) site. Dr. Magnus received her BA in social psychology from the University of California, San Diego, and her MPH and Ph.D. in epidemiology from Tulane University; she is also a nurse. Dr. Magnus has collaborated on and directed a variety of epidemiologic studies, including NIH- and CDC-funded randomized controlled clinical trials and observational studies. She applies an epidemiologic methodology to studies on the local, state, and national levels with a focus on structural barriers to HIV prevention services for highly affected populations as well as the use of health information technology in the innovative delivery of HIV prevention and care services to at-risk communities.