Current Post-Doctoral Fellows

Ank Nijhawan, M.D.
Ank E. Nijhawan, MD is a Research Fellow in Infectious Diseases at The Miriam Hospital, at Brown University School of Medicine. She completed her medical degree and internal medicine training at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas and completed her Infectious Disease fellowship at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals in Boston. She is the recipient of an NIH T32 grant and her primary research interests include HIV prevention and treatment in incarcerated populations and injection drug users.

Amy Nunn, M.S., Sc.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow Amy Nunn is an NIH T-32 postdoctoral fellow at Brown Medical School, where her research focuses on correctional health interventions. Dr. Nunn holds masters and doctoral degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is trained in qualitative and quantitative research methodology and has received grants from the United States Departments of Education and Defense to conduct mixed methods research about the politics, history and costs of Brazil’s AIDS treatment program. She is a former Fulbright fellow and has published articles and book chapters about AIDS treatment and access to essential medicines, harm reduction as well as a book about the politics and history of AIDS treatment in Brazil. At Ibis Reproductive Health, she also directed a nationwide survey of Catholic hospitals’ policies on distributing emergency contraception.