Kelly D. Taylor (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Prevention Science and director of the Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Response in the Institute for Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research aims to address multiple chronic disease outcomes in minoritized communities by developing transformative public health solutions in collaboration with these communities. The goal is to advance equity and save lives by prioritizing the perspectives of individuals and communities at risk of poor health outcomes and empowering them and their care teams to effectively mitigate those risks. As a part of that work, Dr. Taylor leads a lab using immersive technologies and AI to. Her project, Combating Unequal Treatment in Healthcare Through Virtual Awareness and Training in Empathy, is a team science developed study that explores decreasing bias in health care experienced by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color using patient-provider virtual reality simulations to exposure providers to patient’s experiences. She has also conducted biobehavioral surveillance research globally. Dr. Taylor was awarded National Institutes of Health pre-doctoral and postdoctoral traineeships to study health services research and AIDS prevention studies respectively. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University, and the University of California, Berkeley.