The Graduate School's Henriatta Selle Tiri Scholarship Program welcomes its third cohort of students.

The Tiri Scholars are staff members of UMB international affiliates and UMB-associated local organizations. The full-tuition scholarship program began in 2019 to provide an opportunity for members of the university community living and working outside of the United States to have access to the Graduate School’s online degree programs.

The scholarship is named in honor of Henriatta Selle Tiri who tragically lost her life in2021. Henriatta was about to graduate from the MS in Health Sciences with a concentration in Implementation and Dissemination Sciences in May 2021 and her degree was awarded posthumously.

The 2023 cohort includes:

• Uche Atoi, program officer of Prevention, Care and Treatment at IHV Nigeria
• Stella Chifumbi, neurodevelopmental assessor/research nurse at Blantyre Malaria project
• Jacob Godwin, MGIC Tanzania
• Choolwe Maambo, research assistant at MGIC Zambia
• Victoria Mapemba, research nurse and midwife at Blantyre Malaria Project
• Noreen Mbakani, CIHEB Zambia
• Malungo Muyovwe, COVID-19 Coordinator at CIHEB Zambia
• Duncan Tete Okubasu, strategic information lead for the PACT IMARA program at CIHEB Kenya
• Pawel Olowski, data analyst at MGIC Zambia
• Victor Chukwuebuka Ozumba, program documentation assistant at IHV Nigeria