Douglas Roblin MA, PhD

Douglas W. Roblin joined MAPRI as a senior research scientist in July 2017. His primary responsibility is to work with the other MAPRI research scientists and staff to maintain and enhance the research portfolio of health services, intervention, and epidemiology projects. His areas of interest include patient adherence to recommended care, psychosocial stress and cardiometabolic health, health informatics, and social determinants of health. He currently is working on a study to refine a predictive algorithm for acute exacerbations of COPD, a pilot web-based intervention to reduce the risk of non-adherence to bisphosphonate therapy among osteoporosis patients, and a large multisite evaluating the effectiveness of individualized fracture risk information to post-DXA patients.

Prior to joining MAPRI, Dr. Roblin was a professor of health management and policy in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University. He previously worked for 25 years with Kaiser Permanente (KP), initially as a statistician and then as a health economist with KP’s national program offices in Oakland, California, and more recently as a senior research scientist with KP’s research program in Atlanta.