Dr Joyce Wamoyi

Dr Joyce Wamoyi is a social and behavioural researcher at the National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania. For over 20 years, Dr Wamoyi has worked on understanding the social and behavioural determinants of adolescents and young people’s sexual and reproductive health and the structural drivers of HIV risk. In her work, she has explored the dynamics of transactional sex in adolescents, young women's sexual relationships in sub-Saharan Africa and sexual harassment in schools, workplaces, and public places in Tanzania. She is currently working on the evaluation of the scale up of Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) programme to prevent violence against children in Tanzania and the digital delivery of PLH (ParentApp) in Tanzania. She is a member of the UNICEF Advisory Board for the multi-country project “Children’s Experiences and Perspectives of Covid-19, and restrictions related to it”; and WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent health and nutrition (STAGE) Working Group on the Prevention and Management of Anaemia.