Yalda Jabbarpour

Yalda Jabbarpour, MD, is a family physician and director of the Robert Graham Center. In this role, she oversees a team of researchers who create and curate the evidence to support primary care. She conducts research on the primary care workforce, payment for primary care, scope of practice for family physicians, factors contributing to primary care burnout, and the integration of public health and primary care. Dr. Jabbarpour has authored the Primary Care Collaborative’s evidence report on primary care for the last four years. She first came to the Robert Graham Center as a Robert L. Phillips Health Policy fellow in 2015 and served as the medical director of the center from 2018 to 2022. Dr. Jabbarpour also sees patients clinically at the MedStar Family Medicine Center at Spring Valley in Washington, DC. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, attended medical school at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, and completed her residency in family medicine at the Georgetown University/Providence Hospital family medicine residency. February 2023