Joëlle Atere-Roberts

Joëlle Atere-Roberts is a social epidemiologist whose work centers on health equity. She has expertise in developing and testing measures of social and structural determinants of health that underpin health inequities. She also has experience conducting research that applies principles of equitable data collection, analysis, and reporting.   

At Mathematica, Atere-Roberts is involved in a range of health equity projects. She is a subtask lead on a project conducting a health equity review of a state-level department of disability services, for which she leads the review of data system and data collection processes through a health equity lens. As part of this work, she is making recommendations for data collection, including standardization of health equity data and reporting, and proposing a methodology for measuring health equity outcomes.  She also supports a project that is developing a health care spending target with a focus on potential equity adjustment to help make health care more affordable. Atere-Roberts is also a measure lead on a project developing and testing quality measures for behavioral integrated health care.

Atere-Roberts has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Epidemiology, Preventing Chronic Disease, and Cancer Causes & Control. She holds a Ph.D. in social epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.