Marie Gourdet is a registered nurse, health policy scholar, and current PhD candidate in the Nursing Health Policy program at the University of California, San Francisco, where she also earned her master’s degree in the same field. Drawing on more than a decade of experience as an emergency room nurse in both North Carolina and California, her work is grounded in frontline clinical care and a commitment to addressing structural health inequities. Her research focuses on the intersection of HIV and people who use drugs, examining how overlapping social, structural, and behavioral factors shape access to prevention and treatment—an urgent public health challenge, as HIV continues to disproportionately impact marginalized populations including people who inject drugs. Building on this focus, her recent publication contributes to the growing body of research aimed at health outcomes for underserved communities, particularly by highlighting gaps in current approaches and the need for more equitable, person-centered interventions.
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