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Robin A. Pollini is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on reducing the public health impact of injection drug use. Dr. Pollini has conducted studies on overdose risk factors and reasons for inappropriate response to overdose; factors that facilitate and impede drug treatment participation; and barriers to treatment of blood borne infections. Her current research uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to characterize structural-level factors that increase HIV transmission
risk among injection drug users. Dr. Pollini holds MPH and PhD degrees from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree from Georgetown University.
Selected Publications:
Pollini RA, McCall L, Mehta S, Celentano DD, Vlahov D, Strathdee SA. Response to overdose among injection drug users. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2006; 31:261-264.
Pollini RA, O’Toole TP, Ford D, Bigelow G. Does this patient really want treatment? Factors associated with baseline and evolving readiness for change among hospitalized substance using adults interested in treatment. Addictive Behaviors 2006; 31:1904-1918.
Strathdee SA, Lozada R, Pollini RA, Brouwer KC, Mantsios A, Abramovitz DA, Rhodes T, Latkin CA, Patterson TL for Proyecto El Cuete. Individual, social and environmental influences associated with HIV infection among injection drug users in Tijuana, Mexico. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2008; 47:369-376.
Pollini RA, Brouwer KC, Lozada RM, Ramos R, Firestone Cruz M, Magis-Rodriguez C, Case P, Burris S, Pu M, Frost, SDW, Palinkas LA, Miller C, Strathdee SA. Syringe possession arrests are associated with receptive syringe sharing in two U.S.-Mexico border cities. Addiction 2008; 103:101-108.
Pollini RA, Alvelais J, Gallardo M, Vera A, Lozada R, Magis-Rodriguez C, Strathdee SA. The Harm Inside: Injection during incarceration among male injection drug users in Tijuana, Mexico. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2009; 103:52-58.
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