Robert Marlin, MD, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Medicine
General Internal Medicine

MD, Stony Brook University School of Medicine
PhD, Rutgers University New Brunswick
MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
MPhil, Rutgers University New Brunswick
BA, Columbia University



Robert P. Marlin, MD, PhD, MPH is a board-certified primary care internist at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. He also serves as Director of Policy for the Immigrant and Refugee Health Center at BMC and as a core faculty member for the Immigrant and Refugee Health Fellowship program at BMC.

Dr. Marlin has worked for the past 20 years to design and build multidisciplinary, community-informed, patient-centered healthcare programs focused on the needs of forced migrants, including immigrants, refugees, and torture survivors. His research interests include the role of state policy in the health outcomes of forced migrants and the role of language access in health outcomes of patients who prefer to use a language other than English in healthcare settings.

Dr. Marlin previously served as the Chief of the Metta Health Center at the Lowell Community Health Center and the founding director of the Coordinated Care Program for Political Violence Survivors at the Cambridge Health Alliance. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health and as Special Advisor for Healthcare Workforce Development to the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition.

Dr. Marlin completed his medical school training at the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine and his residency in Internal Medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and his MPH in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In addition, he completed the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard Medical School.



Understanding gaps in access to sexual and reproductive health care for immigrant communities in Massachusetts by the Institute for Community Health and the Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research
01/01/2026 - 06/30/2026 (Subcontract PI)
PI: Robert Marlin, MD, PhD, MPH
Institute for Community Health Mass DPH


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  1. Rodriguez JA, Casillas A, Cook BL, Marlin RP. The Language of Equity in Digital Health: Prioritizing the Needs of Limited English Proficient Communities in the Patient Portal 2.0. J. Health Care Poor Underserved. 2021; 32:211-219.
  2. Sreshta N, Patel NA, Marlin RP, Boyd JW. Who Seeks Asylum in the United States and Why? Some Preliminary Answers from a Boston-Based Study. Harvard Medical School Bioethics Journal. 2021. View Publication
  3. Patel NA, Sreshta N, Frank A, Marlin RP, Boyd JW. Psychiatric Resident Participation in an Asylum Clinic: a Single-Institutional Experience. Acad Psychiatry. 2019 Feb; 43(1):56-60. PMID: 29687306; DOI: 10.1007/s40596-018-0925-3;
     
  4. Medline A, Daniels J, Marlin R, Young S, Wilson G, Huang E, Klausner JD. HIV Testing Preferences Among MSM Members of an LGBT Community Organization in Los Angeles. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2017; 28(3):363-371. PMID: 28185723
     
  5. LoCicero A, Marlin RP, Sweeney N, Jull-Patterson D, Gray BL, Boyd JW. Enabling Torture: APA, Clinical Psychology Training, and the Failure to Disobey. Peace Confl. 2016; 22:345-355.
  6. Paradise RK, Choi YS, Cundiff L, Khaliif M, Nevill L, Marlin RP, Patel F, Friedman E. The Language Services Documentation Tool: Documenting How Patient Language Needs Were Met During Clinical Encounters. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2014 Nov; 40(11):522-3. PMID: 26111370; DOI: 10.1016/s1553-7250(14)40067-9;
     
  7. Boyd JW, LoCicero A, Malowney M, Aldis R, Marlin RP. Failing ethics 101: psychologists, the U.S. military establishment, and human rights. Int J Health Serv. 2014; 44(3):615-25. PMID: 25618992; DOI: 10.2190/HS.44.3.j;
     
  8. Hacker K, Chu J, Arsenault L, Marlin RP. Provider's perspectives on the impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity on immigrant health. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2012 May; 23(2):651-65. PMID: 22643614; PMCID: PMC3753075; DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0052;
     
  9. Hacker K, Chu J, Leung C, Marra R, Pirie A, Brahimi M, English M, Beckmann J, Acevedo-Garcia D, Marlin RP. The impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on immigrant health: perceptions of immigrants in Everett, Massachusetts, USA. Soc Sci Med. 2011 Aug; 73(4):586-594. PMID: 21778008; PMCID: PMC3159749; DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.007;
     

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Bar chart showing 9 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2014 and 2021

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2025 Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition: Community Champion Award
2016 Cambridge Health Alliance: Academic Council Award for Excellence
2014 Cambridge Health Alliance: Champion of the Year, Multicultural Affairs and Patient Services Department
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