Professor of Family Medicine
VA National Headache Centers of Excellence; Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Roberta E. Goldman, PhD is a medical anthropologist, Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University (Providence, RI); Adjunct Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health (Boston, MA); and a researcher with the Veterans Health Administration Headache Centers of Excellence Research and Evaluation Center (West Haven, CT). Dr. Goldman has conducted research on a broad range of health-related subjects using multiple-method qualitative and qualitative/quantitative mixed-methods designs. She has over 30 years of experience with multidisciplinary research teams implementing studies within varying medical specialties, and studies at the intersection of primary care and public health for diverse populations. These studies have investigated community and contextual influences on health, illness and health care seeking behaviors across the lifespan, physician-patient communication, and evaluation of community-based health care innovations. She is Director of Community Participatory Research at the Brown University Center for Primary Care and Prevention, Director of Scholarly Development in the Brown University Family Medicine Residency program, and she teaches qualitative methods at Harvard Chan. At both universities Dr. Goldman serves as a research mentor for medical students, medical residents, graduate students, research fellows, and early career faculty.