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 to
serve as an adjunct Assistant Professor. As a student she was a recipient of the Carol
Eliasberg Martin Award in Cancer Prevention and a National Cancer Institute National
Research Service Award pre-doctoral training fellowship from the Department of
Epidemiology. 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 70 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 an associate editor for the Journal of the National Cancer
Institute and on the editorial board of The Journal of Cancer Survivorship. She was a
guest editor for a recent Medical Care journal supplement, Health Care Costing: Data,
Methods, Future Directions. Dr. Yabroff has received NIH Merit Awards, including one for
Economic Studies Related to Cancer Burden and Control.
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