Lauren Collins (MD, MSc) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine. She attends on the inpatient ID/HIV services at Grady Memorial Hospital and is a primary care physician at the Grady Ponce de Leon Center in the Adult and Women’s clinics. Since 2021, she has served as the Medical Director of the Grady Ponce Long-acting Antiretroviral Therapy Program. Dr. Collins’s clinical and research interests focus on improving the care and outcomes of persons with HIV across the lifespan, and in particular, women and those affected by the Southern HIV/AIDS epidemic. Her NIH K23 Award is focused on developing novel tools and strategies for aging-related multimorbidity screening and prevention in persons with HIV that are sex and gender tailored. She also leads a CDC U01 award that uses mixed methods to assess facilitators, barriers, and preferences for long-acting antiretroviral therapy use in cis-gender Black women with HIV in the South with the goal of promoting patient-centered and equitable scale-up of HIV treatment innovation.
