Norma Ware, PhD

Norma C. Ware is a medical anthropologist and associate professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ware conducts research on social and behavioral dimensions of HIV treatment and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa. She is particularly interested in the use of qualitative research on user experiences to explain the dynamics of interventions to improve delivery of health care. Current research topics include: (1) a mobile outreach approach to delivering health services to Lake Victoria fishing communities in western Kenya; (2) evaluation of community-based HIV testing and ART delivery in South Africa and Uganda; (3) use of HIV self-testing and PrEP to facilitate linkage to HIV treatment and prevention services for male partners of HIV-infected pregnant women in Uganda; (4) qualitative evaluation of integrated delivery of PrEP and ART to HIV serodiscordant couples in Ugandan public health clinics; and (5) influences on uptake and adherence to periconception PrEP to reduce HIV risk in S. African women. In carrying out her research, Dr. Ware partners with the Center for Global Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; the International Clinical Research Center at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA; the Infectious Diseases Institute of Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda; Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya; and the Lake Victoria Consortium for Health Research, Entebbe, Uganda. Dr. Ware teaches at Harvard Medical School and collaborates widely with colleagues interested in the application of qualitative methods to research on health. She also mentors junior investigators.