Carolyn Leung Rubin

Carolyn Leung Rubin, EdD, MA is an Assistant Professor at the Tufts University, School of Medicine, with appointments in the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies and the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute. She is also the Program Manager for the Aligning Researchers and Communities for Health within the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Dr.  Rubin’s research agenda focuses on using collaborative community research partnerships to address health disparities in minority and immigrant communities, community capacity building and the intersection of public health and education. She is a co-founder of Project ADAPT (Addressing disparities in Asian populations through translational research) at Tufts Medical Center, an initiative of researchers, administrators, providers, and community partners who are working to address Asian health disparities in the Boston area. Her research portfolio currently includes looking at different clinical models of improving screening rates for hepatitis B among Asian Americans; community-based approaches to improving breast cancer screening rates in the Asian American community; and formative research looking at definitions of empowerment by domestic violence survivors and their client advocates. Over the last two years, Dr. Rubin co-directed an educational intervention aimed at improving the capacity of community leaders to engage in community engaged research projects with academics, and this year is seeking to expand this program to Boston Chinatown. Over the next few years, Dr. Rubin is hoping to expand her research portfolio to include an examination of the role of storytelling in research, in particular, with populations who suffer from a stigmatized health condition, such as mental illness, cancer, and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Rubin has been involved with the Asian American community for over fifteen years. She has served has the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Lao, and Vietnamese Americans and the Asian American Resource Workshop. In addtion to being a SEARAC Board Member, she is also currently a member of the Multicultural Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.