Departmental Affiliations
Center & Institute Affiliations
Kaitlyn Atkins, PhD '22, MPH, is a social epidemiologist with a focus on community-engaged, mixed-methods research that optimizes the sexual and mental health of multiple marginalized populations.
Research Interests
key populations; stigma; sex workers; sexual health; HIV prevention and treatment; scale development; latent variable modeling; intervention design; mixed methods research
Experiences & Accomplishments
Honors & Awards
Mary and Carl Taylor Award in Bioethics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2021
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National Institute of Mental Health, 2021
Mary M. And Benjamin M. Rubin Scholarship for Women, 2021
Select Publications
Selected recent publications:
Atkins, K., Kan, L., Musau, A., Reed, J., Were, D., & Mohan, D. (2022). Adaptation and psychometric evaluation of a scale to measure oral pre-exposure prophylaxis-related stigma among key and vulnerable populations in Kenya. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 25 Suppl 1(Suppl 1), e25929. https://doi.org/10.1002/jia2.25929
Atkins, K., Musau, A., Mugambi, M., Odhyambo, G., Tengah, S. A., Kamau, M., Kumau, R., Reed, J., & Were, D. (2022). Health system opportunities and challenges for PrEP implementation in Kenya: A qualitative framework analysis. PLoS One, 17(10), e0259738. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259738
Atkins, K., Rucinski, K., Mudavanhu, M., Holmes, L., Mutunga, L., Kaufman, M. R., Bassett, J., Van Rie, A., & Schwartz, S. R. (2021). Sexual Relationship Types, Partner HIV Self-Testing, and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Among South African Adolescent Girls and Young Women: A Latent Class Analysis. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999), 86(4), 413–421. https://doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000002569
Atkins, K., LeMasters, K., Oloonabadi, S. A., Munn, T., Eng, E., & Lightfoot, A. F. (2021). How Can We PrEP? Exploring Black MSM's Experiences With Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Through Photovoice. AIDS Education and Prevention 33(1), 16–32. https://doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2021.33.1.16