Nicholas Hastings

Nicholas Hastings

My name is Nicholas and I'm a MS2 in PCLT! I'm from Shelby, NC and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2017. After graduation, I served as a Princeton in Africa Fellow working with the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) in Gaborone, Botswana. There, I developed and executed psychosocial support programming for 2,000+ patients at the country's largest pediatric HIV clinic. I later returned to the US to complete the Master of Biomedical Sciences (MBS) program at Duke where my research focused on health disparities among transgender and gender diverse youth. Following MBS, I worked in HIV prevention clinical research supporting a NIH/DAIDS-funded study aimed at reducing HIV rates among Black MSM in the American South. My research and clinical interests center around health equity, with particular passions for working with LGBTQ-identified, adolescent, and unhoused populations. Moving forward, I'm interested in Psychiatry, Family Medicine, and exploring opportunities to utilize digital health technologies to increase access to equitable care.