Lauryn Stafford

Lauryn Stafford is a second-year post-bachelor fellow at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) where she works on diabetes mellitus for the Global Burden of Disease Study.

A woman holds a portrait of her late husband after he passed away due to a diabetes-related heart attack, in Red Wing, Minnesota, on September 29, 2021.
Poverty

Casualties of COVID: Insulin and Dialysis 

by Quinn Rafferty, Lauryn Stafford, Liane Ong

How the pandemic has been life-threatening to people living with diabetes and chronic kidney disease

People get their eyes tested at a free eye-care camp, in Mumbai, India, on December 6, 2014.
Aging

Putting Vision Loss and Aging into Focus

by Quinn Rafferty, Lauryn Stafford, Jaimie Steinmetz

Addressing high blood sugar can reduce vision loss in older adults