Dr. Robert Marlin

Dr. Marlin serves as the Chief of the Metta Health Center, a multidisciplinary team focusing on the health of forced migrants, including torture survivors, and the Associate Chief Medical Officer of the Lowell Community Health Center. He also previously served as the Chief of the Department of Family Medicine at the Lowell Community Health Center. Prior to coming to Lowell Dr. Marlin served for 13 years as the founding director of the Coordinated Care Program for Political Violence Survivors at the Cambridge Health Alliance and as in Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his M.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine, his Ph.D. in anthropology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and his M.P.H. 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. Dr. Marlin also serves on the Advisory Council of the Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research and as Special Advisor on Healthcare Workforce Development to the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition.