Lauren Maxwell, PhD, MPH is a Senior Researcher at Heidelberg University’s Institute for Global Health and manages the Zika Virus Individual Participant Data Consortium on behalf of the WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research. Lauren’s work focuses on retrospective harmonization, the research response to epidemics, barriers and facilitators to data sharing, violence against women and children, and women and girls’ sexual and reproductive health. Lauren received her PhD in epidemiology from McGill University and her Master’s in Maternal and Child Health from UNC’s Gillings Global School of Public Health.