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Natasha Aduloju-Ajijola is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and a TL1 Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Medicine. She received her Ph.D. (2016) in Health Education and Promotion from the University of Alabama, as a Southern Regional Educational Board Fellow, with her dissertation- “Examining the Determinants of Condom Use among African American College Students Attending Predominantly White Institutions”. Dr. Aduloju-Ajijola specializes in Sexual Health Inequities. She has received a TL1 grant from the Kansas University Clinical Translational Science Institute to religiously and cultural tailor the linkage to care system to increase the number of African Americans living with HIV linked and retained in care. In addition, she was the primary investigator of a community health needs assessment for African American men who have sex with men (MSM) in tandem with BlaqOut, a local African American MSM community coalition; she was also the co-investigator of a multisite college student sexual health study. As a graduate student, Dr. Aduloju-Ajijola won the Outstanding Graduate Student Poster Presentation for the Population, Reproduction, and Sexual Health Section of the American Public Health Association and she was a three-thesis competition finalist at the University of Alabama.