Marlena Robbins

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Public Health, UC Berkeley
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Marlena Robbins is a Doctor of Public Health candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the Program Coordinator for the Collective Continuance: Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship, where her research utilizes implementation science, Indigenous methodologies, and public health prevention theory to develop a fellowship for early-career UC Berkeley PhD students interested in studying at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge systems and psychedelic science. The fellowship connects students with Indigenous-led organizations and advisors to help them craft their research in an ethical way, centering Indigenous methodologies, data sovereignty, and Indigenous governance.  She has contributed to tribal engagement strategies for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and served on the Colorado Natural Medicine Tribal Working Group.