Kristen D. Krause, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers), is an instructor of urban health in the Department of Urban-Global Public Health and the deputy director of the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies at the School of Public Health. She has expertise in HIV/AIDS, aging, resilience, vaccine sentiments, and broader LGBTQ health disparities. More specifically, her work examines resilience as it relates to biological, psychological, and social health status among older gay HIV-positive men. Previously, she received a TL1 Pre-doctoral fellowship at the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at NYU Langone Health, and more recently received the Stuart D. Cook Excellence in Research Award for her dissertation work from the Rutgers SPH. Kristen also serves as the founding Deputy Editor of a new journal geared towards the health and well-being of sexual and gender-diverse communities called Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health.