Lauren Violette

Lauren Violette, PhD, MPH is a Thomas O. Pyle postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. She received a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology at the George Washington University in 2015 and her doctoral degree in Epidemiology at the University of Washington in 2024.

Lauren's doctoral research explored preferences for and use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) products and delivery models among women who inject drugs and gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men living in Seattle, Washington. More broadly, her research has focused on HIV/STI testing and PrEP implementation among priority populations in the US and doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis for prevention of STIs among cisgender women in Kenya. Lauren's current research involves assessing the acceptability, feasibility, and potential impact of over-the-counter PrEP.

Lauren's interests include infectious disease epidemiology, choice modeling, mixed-methods research designs, harm reduction, and sexual health.