About Robert O. Marlin

Robert O. Marlin has advocated for the health and healthcare needs of vulnerable populations for the past twenty years. Over the past decade he has focused on the development of multidisciplinary and coordinated models of care for refugee and immigrant populations. Since 2006, he has directed the Coordinated Care Program for Political Violence Survivors at the Cambridge Health Alliance, where he also provides primary care services to a diverse, largely immigrant patient population. Dr. Marlin received his medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 2001.  Dr. Marlin completed his internal medicine residency at Cambridge Health Alliance in 2006. He completed the Mongan Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and received his M.P.H. in Health Policy from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2013.