Michael Patrick Vaughn

Michael is a sociologist with expertise in sexuality, identity, trauma, and memory. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the HIV Center, Michael's work centers the influence of medical mistrust as it relates to novel biomedical HIV technologies. More broadly, Michael's research portfolio investigates the ways in which medicine and healthcare can be a source of trauma which persists across generations, having wide-reaching social psychological influences.

Research Interests

Built environment
Gender
Health
HIV interventions
HIV prevention
HIV treatment and care
Inequality
Inequality/disparity
LGBT populations
Sexuality
Social determinants
Other: Collective Memory