Danielle Roubinov

Danielle Roubinov, PhD is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and a member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. Her research focuses on developmental psychobiology, particularly examining the relationships between early life stress, physiological stress responses, and children's mental health outcomes.

Dr. Roubinov received her B.A. in Psychology from UCLA in 2006, followed by a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Arizona State University in 2014. She completed postdoctoral fellowships in Clinical Psychology at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System (2015) and in Developmental Psychobiology at UCSF (2017). She also completed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training at UCSF in 2017.

Her research interests include:

• Developmental psychobiology and stress physiology in children
• Maternal depression and its impact on child development
• Early life adversity and risk for internalizing disorders
• Multisystem physiological stress responses
• Transaction between parenting behaviors and child outcomes
• Interventions for maternal depression and child behavior problems

Dr. Roubinov leads the CARE Lab at UCSF, where she conducts research on how children's stress physiology interacts with environmental factors to influence mental health outcomes. Her work has been featured in media outlets discussing how neighborhood quality may protect health of children in poverty, how friends can help kids cope with harsh parenting, and how children's mood during early life stages is linked to maternal mental health.

She has secured significant research funding, including:

• NIH R56MH127032: "Efficacy of an integrated intervention to treat maternal depression and children's behavior problems: A transactional perspective" (2021-2023) as Principal Investigator
• NIH K23MH113709: "From risk to resilience: understanding and altering profiles of multisystem stress physiology to protect children vulnerable to internalizing disorders" (2018-2023) as Principal Investigator
• Brain and Behavior Foundation grant on "Understanding the complex links between adversity, physiology, and the trajectory of internalizing disorders in childhood"
• UCSF Resource Allocation Program Pilot Grant on "The influence of prenatal maternal depression on children's epigenetics and physiology"

Dr. Roubinov has published extensively on child development, stress physiology, and maternal mental health, with recent work focusing on multisystem stress responses, prenatal influences across the lifespan, and gender disparities in academic medicine. Her research often employs longitudinal designs and examines sociodemographically diverse samples to understand mechanisms linking early adversity to child mental health outcomes.