Lauren is a Family Nurse Practitioner in Durham, North Carolina. Originally from Minnesota, she graduated with a B.S. in Nursing from the U of MN in 2005. Following her graduation, Ms. Beaudry worked as a registered nurse in both acute and primary care settings before she moved to NC to pursue her career as a Nurse Practitioner. In 2010 Lauren’s work in global health began when she was accepted into the Master of Science in Global Health program at Duke University. During her graduate studies, Lauren traveled to Sri Lanka, where she completed a three-month global health residency that involved interdisciplinary research collaboration with the University of Ruhuna Medical College. In addition, Lauren completed a Community Health Clinical with the Duke School of Nursing that involved providing primary health care to underserved children and families living in a rural area of Honduras.

As a part of her nurse practitioner residency, Lauren also spent over 100hrs working at a community health clinic in Moshi, Tanzania where she collaborated with local practitioners to provide medical care to children and families. In 2013 Lauren received the Bonnie Jones Friedman Humanitarian award and became the first student at Duke University to complete an MSN and an MSc-GH.