Julie Bobitt, PhD

Dr. Julie Bobitt is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has over 20 years of working to advance programs and policies on behalf of adults aged 60 and over. Her primary research interests focus on the dissemination and implementation of programs and policies that impact the well-being of older adults. Dr. Bobitt’s most recent work has focused on older adult’s use of opioids and cannabis to address chronic pain. She is also currently conducting a study on older women with HIV who use cannabis. Dr. Bobitt earned her doctorate degree in Community Health from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship program as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow in Washington D.C. where she served at the Office of the Surgeon Generalduring the Turn the Tide (opioid prescription reduction) campaign.