Sarah Dobbins, MPH, PHD, PMHNP

Sarah Dobbins, MPH, PHD, PMHNP

(she/her)

Sarah Dobbins is a psychiatric nurse practitioner at the San Francisco Department of Public Health and a Doctoral Candidate at University of California, San Francisco. Before becoming a nurse, she studied infectious disease epidemiology and worked in clinical research. As an NP at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, she cares for unhoused adults with HIV, serious mental illness, and substance use disorders. Her academic and research activities are centered on understanding the structural, psychosocial, and biological pathways underpinning cognitive impairment among marginalized older adults, particularly people living with HIV.