Renée Boynton-Jarrett
Founding Director, Vital Village Community Engagement Network

Renée Boynton-Jarrett MD, ScD, is a practicing primary care pediatrician at Boston Medical Center, a social epidemiologist and the founding director of the Vital Village Community Engagement Network. Through the Vital Village Network, she is supporting the development of community-based strategies to promote child well-being in three Boston neighborhoods. She joined the faculty at Boston University School of Medicine in 2007 and is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics. She received her AB from Princeton University, her MD from Yale School of Medicine, ScD in Social Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health, and completed residency in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is a nationally recognized for expertise in the role of early-life adversities as life course social determinants of health. 

Panel: Exploring and Supporting In-Sector Transformation—Education