Robin Pollini, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor

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West Virginia University School of Medicine

Department:

Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry

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Faculty

Associate Professor

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West Virginia University School of Public Health

Department:

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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Faculty

• MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2001
• PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2005

Dr. Pollini is a substance abuse and infectious disease epidemiologist whose research focuses on mitigating the adverse health impacts of injection drug use; these include overdose, HIV, viral hepatitis, and serious injection-related bacterial infections like endocarditis. She uses innovative mixed methods study designs to examine how individual- and structural-level factors influence drug-related morbidity and mortality as well as health services access and utilization among people who inject drugs. Dr. Pollini has been Principal Investigator of several grants funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).