Karin Elizabeth Tobin PhD

Karin Elizabeth Tobin, PhD is an Associate Professor at The Johns Hopkins University. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. My research focuses on identifying social and contextual factors that are associated with health and risk and developing and testing behavioral interventions to improve health outcomes. My work addresses significant public health problems such as HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, hepatitis C, mental health, addiction, and overdose. I work with several key populations including people who use and inject drugs and sexual and racial minorities and I use a harm reduction framework to guide my research and practice. My research includes a focus on the socio-spatial and temporal context of behavior and utilizes social influence theories to inform my work.