23 January 2026

We learned with great sadness that Dr. Lauren F. Collins has passed away. We thank her for her dedication to advancing equitable HIV care and for her significant contributions to her patients and the field as a whole.

Biography

Dr. Lauren Collins was an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and was a graduate of the Boston University School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at Duke University prior to moving to Atlanta where she completed Infectious Diseases fellowship and a Master of Science in Clinical Research at Emory University in 2020. Afterwards, she was recruited to join the Emory ID Division. She attended on the inpatient ID/HIV services at Grady Memorial Hospital and was a primary care physician at the Grady Ponce de Leon Center in the Adult and Women’s clinics, where she also served as the Medical Director of the long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy program.

Dr. Collins’s clinical and research interests focused on improving the care of persons with HIV and in particular, women with HIV and those affected by the Southern HIV/AIDS epidemic. In her research, she studied the mounting burden of aging-related comorbidities experienced by persons with HIV and investigated the role of sex differences as well as traditional versus HIV-specific risk factors contributing to overall comorbidity burden.