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Dr. Marisa Robinson, DrPH, MPH, RPCV

Dr. Marissa Robinson, DrPH, MPH, RPCV (she/her/hers) is a strategic-leader, visionary, and disruptor within the field of Infectious Disease. Currently within the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP), she serves as a Health Equity Specialist Lead and Black Women’s Initiative co-lead. Dr. Robinson oversees development and coordination of health equity promotion among teams including vaccines and immunization, blood and tissue safety and availability, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, antimicrobial resistance, and OIDP’s federal advisory committees. Her directive is to gain understanding and address health disparities

among the underserved, racial, ethnic minority, and rural communities surrounding diversity, equity, inclusion, accountability, accessibility and belonging.

Dr. Robinson provided dedicated leadership as the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S (EHE) Coordinator for the past 5 years on the EHE initiative and served as a liaison for the OIDP Regional Engagement Teams Commissioned Corps Officers. Dr. Robinson completed her Doctor of Public Health degree as a Goldseker Foundation Scholar at Morgan State University’s School of Community Health and Policy. Her dissertation was entitled “A

Qualitative Exploration of Preexposure Prophylaxis Among Black Women Attending a Historically Black College and University in the Northeastern United States”. Dr. Robinson completed her doctoral fellowship training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Pre-Doctoral Clinical Research Training Program, her Master of Public Health with a concentration in global health, infectious diseases, and a certificate in socio-contextual determinants of health from

Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and her Bachelor of Arts in psychology and public health from Spelman College.

When she is not working hard on all things surrounding health equity, Dr. Robinson is teaching Zumba where her love for people, health, wellness, and dance coincide!

Take a look at our interview with Dr. Robinson and Dr. Lillian Agbeyegbe!