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K. Robin Yabroff
Robin Yabroff, PhD, MBA, is an Epidemiologist in the Health Services and Economics
Branch of the Applied Research Program. She received her doctorate in Epidemiology from
The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, where she continues
serve as an adjunct Assistant Professor. As a student she received the Carol Eliasberg
Martin Award in Cancer Prevention. She also received an MBA in finance from the
University of Rochester. Before joining NCI in 2002, she was a research Assistant
Professor in the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University.
Dr. Yabroff's current research interests include developing methods to estimate the
economic and quality-of-life burden of cancer and understanding the determinants of
population trends, care, and disparities in the receipt of cancer screening, follow-up
services, and cancer treatment. She is author or co-author of over 50 journal articles and
book chapters on clinical epidemiology and health services research related to cancer. She
serves as a reviewer for numerous clinical, health services research, and epidemiology
journals, and is currently on the editorial board of The Journal of Cancer Survivorship.
Dr. Yabroff received an NIH Merit Award for implementing health care provider studies to
understand and improve the delivery of colorectal cancer screening in the United
States.
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