Camryn M. Garrett

Dr. Garrett is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the NIH T32 Training Program on HIV and Substance Use in the Criminal Justice System. She recently earned her doctorate within the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. In her time as a doctoral student, she contributed to a variety of projects that (1) explored the psychosocial wellbeing and lived experiences of people living with HIV in the Deep South, (2) investigated the organizational resilience of AIDS Service Organizations, and (3) documented the lifecycle of electronic health record data utilized in big data HIV studies. Her dissertation work explored naloxone acceptability, as expressed on social media (i.e., X/Twitter and TikTok), and examined associations of state-level Good Samaritan Law parole protections with county-level opioid overdose mortality. Overall, Camryn's work is rooted in health equity. She is interested in further exploring the ways in which substance and HIV criminalization contribute to health disparities, particularly as experienced by people living with HIV or people who have interacted with the criminal justice system.

Prior to her doctoral studies, Camryn attended the University of Virginia for her undergraduate studies, where she majored in global public health and sociology, and Master of Public Health. Outside of research, she enjoys reading, crafting, and getting outdoors.