Carolyn Audet, PhD, MSci

Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy
Associate Director of Research, VIGH
Co-Director
Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research

Global Health Research Interests: Anthropology, Clinical Trials, Community Health, Global Health Policy, Implementation Science, Maternal and Child Health, Traditional Medicine

Countries: Mozambique, South Africa

Dr. Audet is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and the Institute for Global Health at Vanderbilt University and an Honorary Associate Professor at MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), in the School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Dr. Audet focuses on three main lines of research: 1) male partner engagement in HIV care and treatment of their pregnant wives/partners to increase uptake of testing and treatment while promoting empathy and support, 2) collaboration with traditional healers and traditional birth attendants to increase testing, linkage, and treatment adherence among people living with HIV, and 3) evaluation of comprehensive community-based programs designed to increase treatment uptake among those with substance use disorder.   

Dr. Audet is the PI of an R34 (2021-2023) and an R01 (2017-2022) from NIMH, an R21 (2020-2022) from NIAID, and several Bureau of Justice grants in collaboration with the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt University, where she studied Anthropology, a MSci in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and competed a Fellowship in Implementation Science from Washington University in St Louis.  

Education

PhD, Vanderbilt University