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Senior Scientific Director, Health Services Research

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Dr. Robin Yabroff is an epidemiologist with more than 25 years of health services research experience in academic, federal government, and non-profit settings. Her areas of expertise are related to the economic burden of cancer and understanding the determinants of population trends and disparities in the receipt of cancer screening, follow-up services, and cancer treatment. She has co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles. Dr. Yabroff serves as a reviewer for numerous clinical, health services research, and epidemiology journals, and is a Deputy Editor for the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cancer Survivorship and JCO Oncology Practice. She was a guest editor for the Medical Care journal supplement, Health Care Costing: Data, Methods, Future Directions, and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute journal supplement, Comparing Cancer Care and Economic Outcomes Across Health Systems: Challenges and Opportunities. Dr. Yabroff has received multiple NIH Merit Awards, including one for Economic Studies Related to Cancer Burden and another for The Development and Dissemination of Innovative Statistical and Economic Methods. She led a collaborative effort to improve publicly available data for estimating the burden of cancer in the US, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS): Experiences with Cancer Survivorship Supplement. A listing of publications is available from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1b54ZDIe-5fMFd/bibliography/public/.