Bio
Robin Clark is a professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health and Quantitative Health Sciences. He specializes in the economic evaluation of health care policies and interventions, with a special focus on substance use disorders, mental health and primary care. His work has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Mental Health, HRSA, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts and by health and human services agencies in several states.His current work focuses on the impact of homelessness on the health and healthcare utilization of mothers and infants, implementation of treatment for individuals with addiction in real world settings, and the impact of Medicaid policies on accessibility, effectiveness and cost of treatment for opioid addiction. Clark also studies policies and practices that support individuals with persistently high health care costs and multiple chronic conditions.