SUMMARY Increased attention must be given to the health of women living with HIV (WLHIV) across all stages of their lives, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and countries like Kenya where girls and women have the highest HIV prevalence and rates of new infections. Emphasis on women’s health is critical because WLHIV face unique health challenges and are often disproportionately affected by co-morbidities, especially as they age. It is essential that institutions build the in- country capacity to design and conduct research that will improve health of WLHIV. This is the primary goal of the parent D43 Fogarty-funded program, led by Drs. Elizabeth Bukusi (Kenya Medical Research Institute [KEMRI]) and Carey Farquhar (University of Washington [UW]), is entitled Women and HIV: Translation of Research into Practice (WHIV). In this application, we propose to complement what we are doing in the parent award and provide funding, mentorship and support for recent graduates of the D43 program who are on the path to becoming independent investigators. From 2015 to the present, our WHIV Fogarty training program has supported 27 researchers as they earned advanced degrees at the UW and University of Nairobi (23 MPH, 4 PhD). We have found that post-graduate funding is essential to ensure the success of our recent graduates as they transition to initiating independent research on HIV and women’s health. For this supplement we solicited concept notes from all eligible trainees and identified 4 MPH graduates to compete with full proposals for two fellowship positions. Our Training Advisory Committee will select the two awardees who will receive stipend and research support for their studies. They will also receive high-quality mentorship from experienced teams of KEMRI and UW mentors and participate in online research seminars, manuscript and grant writing workshops, and regular meetings with the MPIs, their peers and their mentors to review their research progress and discuss important career development topics. The WHIV D43 has used this approach with post-doctoral fellows to fill funding and mentorship gaps after graduation and will build on that successful experience.