Fletcher Njororai, PhD, CHES

Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
University of Texas at Tyler
Department of Health and Kinesiology
3900 University Blvd
Tyler, TX
USA 75703
Email: fnjororai@uttyler.edu

Biographical Sketch: Fletcher Njororai, Ph.D. received her Ph.D. from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas with a major in Community Health Promotion and a minor in Family Studies. Dr Njororai is currently in her second year as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, Department of Public Health. Her primary research focus is assessing health disparities among Burundian refugees resettling in Knoxville, TN from Tanzanian refugee camps. Using Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Approach, Dr. Njororai participates in an initiative, Health Transitions, which incorporates a service-learning component to work with students and Burundian refugees in conducting health promotion and education as well as community empowerment and capacity building activities and projects. Dr. Njororai’s broader research interest include assessing health disparities among African immigrant populations in the US, Health Policy; and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has taught many courses including Global Health; Women’s Health; Ethnic and Cultural Aspects in Health Promotion; Program Planning and Evaluation; and Cultural Competency. She also has experience in grant writing. Dr. Njororai has extensive knowledge about HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa where she volunteered for many years with NGOs focusing on HIV/AIDS in Kenya while teaching at Kenyatta University, Nairobi Kenya as faculty. Dr. Njororai recently spear-headed an international multi-disciplinary collaboration between UT and Kenyatta University, Nairobi- Kenya, for a project working on health of children in slums near Nairobi, Kenya. She also participated as a Co-PI in writing the NSF grants proposal which was awarded to fund this collaboration.

Papers:
3183.0 Health among resettling elderly refugees in east Tennessee: Implications for health interventions and policy