Hawa Camara is an early-career researcher and a current PhD candidate with over 10 years of experience in global health. She has led multidisciplinary public health teams in the United States and in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean including Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Guinea, Haiti, Kenya, and Nigeria. Hawa holds have a BSc in Public and Community Health from the University of Maryland, and a MPH (Global and Community Health) from George Mason University. Moreover, she has pursued additional studies in Health Economics Evaluation at Oxford University, and Human Resources for Health at KIT Health, Amsterdam. Hawa is also a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). She is currently conducting research on cervical cancer prevention in low-resource settings using an innovative point of care diagnostic technology. Her research uses qualitative research and implementation science to help improve the implementation of cervical cancer prevention programs in low-resource settings.