Lauren Whitehurst

Lauren Whitehurst received her. B.S. in Psychology and an M.A. in Experimental Psychology from James Madison University in 2011 and 2013, respectively and her PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Riverside in 2018. She completed a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Center for Health and Community and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco in 2020. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Kentucky. She is the Director of Team Science at the University of Kentucky’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Core Faculty in the Center for Health Equity Transformation, and affiliated faculty in the Department of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky.