Dr. Lawrence Mwananyanda is a public health professional with years of experience in project development, implementation, and management. A medical doctor, he has a background in epidemiology, focused on HIV/AIDS and STI prevention, treatment, and care among most-at-risk populations. Dr. Mwananyanda was Country Director and Chief of Party for the mothers2mothers (m2m) project that worked to improve outcomes of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programs and provide care to HIV-positive pregnant women and new mothers. In this role, he guided implementation and strategic planning of m2m, built team capacity to manage the program’s design, implementation and evaluation, and managed ongoing expansion of programming and quality improvement of existing services.Dr. Mwananyanda was Project Director for the Zambia-Emory HIV Research Project in Lusaka, which conducts clinical, behavioral, and laboratory studies on HIV vaccines, STIs, and HIV prevention interventions. As the key contact at the site, he was responsible for organizing all aspects of research and programmatic activities and ensuring project consistency with national guidelines and regulatory requirements. In this role, he supervised research protocols, study design,and development of data collection instruments, provided technical oversight for protocol compliance and program implementation, designed, implemented and managed data collection systems, provided ethics and regulatory oversight, coordinated training, and prepared reports, including to government and regulatory authorities. Dr. Mwananyanda has a wealth of experience as Principal Investigator or Co-PI on multiple research projects, including HIV/STI surveillance studies, HIV vaccine trials, and a study of HIV discordant couples.