Dr. Lauren Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a PhD in Social Work. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine at Meharry Medical College, where she serves as the Director of HIV & Trauma Studies and Implementation Research at the Center for the Study of Social Determinants of Health. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Infectious Disease Division, and a Fellow with the Inter-CFAR Implementation Science Fellowship with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She currently collaborates with Nashville CARES to conduct research, previously serving as their Director of Behavioral Health & Research. With an extensive background as a psychotherapist, Dr. Brown offers a unique set of skills to the TN CFAR. Her research focuses on the intersection of HIV and various issues—largely psychological trauma, intimate partner violence, mental health, and substance use—and includes prospective data collection throughout the United States as well as South Africa. A major focus of her work has been on the implementation of resilience-focused trauma-informed care (TIC) in HIV care settings. She currently is funded through the TN CFAR Developmental Core Award (P30AI110527) and the RCMI Health Disparities Core Award with Meharry Medical College. She collaborates regularly, with other HIV providers in the Deep South, to refine the standard of HIV care through community-engaged research and attention to social and behavioral determinants of HIV health disparities.