Rebekah L. Rollston

Rebekah L. Rollston (she/her), MD, MPH, is a primary care and addiction medicine physician at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, where she serves patients with severe and persistent mental illness, an addiction medicine physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Bridge Clinic, and is a faculty of the MGH Rural Medicine Program, through which she provides telehealth primary care to patients on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.

She has specialized expertise in sexual and reproductive health and is certified in perinatal mental health (PMH-C) through Postpartum Support International. Dr. Rollston is an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and teaches Essentials of the Profession I & II—Social Medicine, which introduces students to the roles that physicians can play in addressing the social determinants of health via clinical medicine, advocacy, and policy.

She earned her M.D. from East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine (in the rural primary care track) and her master of public health from George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.

Dr. Rollston was also selected as a 2020-2021 visiting scholar in Northeastern University’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, where she studied the intersection of religion and sexual and reproductive health.

She is an active member of the Harvard Joint Committee on the Status of Women, Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Public Health, and an external affiliate of the RTI Global Gender Center.

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