Rachel Volberg

Dr. Rachel Volberg is a sociologist who has been involved in research on gambling and gambling-related problems and harms since 1985. 

Dr. Volberg spent most of her career working as an independent scholar through her consulting business, Gemini Research. Since 2013 she has also been a Research Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 

Dr. Volberg has served as a consultant and advisor to governments and private sector organizations in Europe, Asia, and North America on issues of gambling research, policy, and service development. Dr. Volberg has engaged in extensive service to the field as an advocate for people experiencing gambling-related harm and their families, as a journal reviewer and editor, and as a mentor of young scholars in the field. In 2022, she was honored with a Lifetime Research Award by the National Council on Problem Gambling. 

Dr. Volberg is a leading authority in the areas of the epidemiology of gambling and problem gambling, the behavioral assessment of gambling and problem gambling, the etiology and prevention of problem gambling, and the social and economic impacts of gambling.