Kiawana Fulford has been selected as North Carolina A&T State University School of Nursing’s representative to Johns Hopkins School of Nursing’s Minority Health Disparities Research Training (MHIRT) program for the summer of 2012.

Fulford will travel to South Africa to be immersed in studying the culture and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. She is the ninth student from N.C. A&T who has participated in the program since 2004.

The project is funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Dr. Fannie Gaston-Johansson of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is the project director.