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Leah Rubin

Leah Rubin, PhD

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

Languages

  • English

Gender

Female

About Leah Rubin

Professional Titles

  • Co-Founder/Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Brain Health Program

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Neurology

Background

Dr. Leah Rubin is a Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Rubin received her BA from Franklin and Marshall University, a MA in Clinical Psychology from Loyola University Maryland, and a Ph.D. and M.P.H. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. 

Dr. Rubin’s work is dedicated to improving the cognitive and mental health of several vulnerable populations, including women and men living with HIV (both nationally and, more recently, internationally), individuals with serious mental illness, dementia, and traumatic brain injury. Her broad training background allows her to use an interdisciplinary approach in her research program that incorporates epidemiological, mechanistic (e.g., structural and functional neuroimaging) and intervention science (e.g., pharmacologic challenge studies). 

 

Additional Academic Titles

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology

Lab Website

Brain Health Program - Lab Website

Research Summary

View Dr. Rubin's active projects on NIH RePORTER.

Dr. Rubin’s epidemiologic and mechanistic studies have been primarily conducted in the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS). 

Dr. Rubin has also worked within other large-scale cohort studies including: 

  • CNS HIV Anti-Retroviral Therapy Effects Research (CHARTER) cohort
  • Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS)
  • Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP)
  • Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)
  • Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)

More recently she has started to expand her work in the U.S. to Uganda and Zimbabwe. 

Dr. Rubin is an active member of:

  • The AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) Neurology Collaborative Science Group (NCSG)
  • MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS) Neuropsychological Working Group
  • JH Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Central Nervous System Dysfunction Scientific Working Group (SWG; co-director)
  • The Retrovirus Laboratory in JHU Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology 
  • The Canadian HIV-Ageing Multidisciplinary Programmatic Strategy (CHAMPS) in NeuroHIV.

 

Expertise

Education

University of Illinois (Chicago)

M.P.H., 2015

University of Illinois (Chicago)

Ph.D., 2009

Loyola University

M.A., 2002