Dr. L. Lauren Brown is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Infectious Disease Division and Department of Health Policy and Assistant Director of the Implementation Science Core for the TN Center for AIDS Research. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Meharry Medical College, past fellow of the HIV Infectious Diseases and Global Health Implementation Research Institute at Washington University in St. Louis and the Inter-CFAR Implementation Science Fellowship with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and previous member of the Detroit Urban Research Center’s Community-Based Participatory Research Academy. Her work is supported by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (SOE-2023C3-35602), the National Institute of Mental Health (K01MH131471-01A1), the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) via TN CFAR (P30AI110527), the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) via Research Centers for Minority Institutions (RCMI) (U24MD15970) and the Southeast Collaborative for Innovative and Collaborative Solutions to Chronic Disease Disparities Center (1P50MD017347-01), ViiV Healthcare’s Positive Action Southern Initiative, and Gilead Compass; through these mechanisms, she primarily concentrates on organizational trauma resilience in HIV clinics (St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital) and community-based settings (Nashville CARES) and has a specific interest in developing community-led psychometric tools. Previously, Dr. Brown served as Director of Behavioral Health & Research at Nashville CARES, and she spent over a decade practicing psychotherapy—concentrating on psychological trauma, intimate partner violence, and mental health. Her past research focuses on the HIV-intimate partner violence intersection among women in South Africa.