Research Public Health Analyst
Quality Measurement and Healthy Policy Program
RTI International

Erin Dobbins is a research public health analyst at RTI International. She received an MA in experimental social psychology where her research focused on health and medical decision making (topics included: posthumous organ donation, body image, as well as primary decision-making research). Erin’s current interests center on the intended and unintended consequences health care policy has on decision making. She is particularly interested in policies pertaining to quality and value and the intersection of physical and behavioral health care. Because these complex questions are best answered using mixed-method approaches, Erin has cultivated skills in both qualitative and quantitative methods. In addition to her primary areas of interest, Erin has graduate and undergraduate level experience with functional neuro anatomy which informs how she conceptualizes the impact of social and structural systems on human behavior. Erin favors creatively disruptive approaches to problem solving, often seeing patterns that others miss. She strives for continuous improvement in the research process by challenging the status quo.