Molly Martin, MD, University of Illinois Chicago, Professor of Pediatrics and a Fellow in the Health InstituteResearch and Policy at the University of Illinois Chicago. Dr. Martin is an established leader in the fields of implementation science and behavioral intervention design and testing, especially as they relate to community health workers. She is also active in local and national policy efforts that target health disparities. Her research focuses on community models to improve health. Dr. Martin is the Director of the UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Science Pilot GrantProgram and an Associate Director in the UIC Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science.
She is particularly interested in asthma, oral health and COVID-19 in children. Dr. Martin has been the principal investigator on multiple NIH-funded projects that test community-based interventions targeting these conditions. She served on the Board of the Chicago Asthma Consortium and held a position on the Executive Committee for The Community Health Worker Section of the American Public Health Association. She currently is a member of the State of Illinois Community Health Worker Advisory Board which is formalizing community health worker workforce credentialing in Illinois.
As a complement to her research, Dr. Martin sees patients in the Mile Square Health Center and participates in resident and student education. Finally, Dr. Martin is the proud, but tired, parent of three teenagers.