Renee D. Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD

Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Renée Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD, a pediatrician and social epidemiologist, is an associate professor at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine. She is the founding director of the Vital Village Networks. Vital Village uses a trauma-informed lens to improve community capacity to promote child wellbeing and advance equity through dedicated collaborative partnerships, research, data-sharing, and community leadership development in Boston and nationally through the NOW Forum and CRADLE Lab. Her scholarship has focused on early-life adversities as life course social determinants of health. She has a specific concentration on psychosocial stress and neuroendocrine and reproductive health outcomes, including obesity, puberty, and fertility. She is nationally recognized for work on the intersection of community violence, intimate partner violence, and child abuse and neglect and neighborhood characteristics that influence these patterns.

Publications

  • Published 4/17/2025

    Wise LA, Hoffman MN, Lovett SM, Geller RJ, Schrager NL, Ukah UV, Wesselink AK, Abrams JA, Boynton-Jarrett R, Kuohung W, Kuriyama AS, Hunt MO, Williams DR, Ncube CN. Racial and ethnic disparities in fecundability: a North American preconception cohort study. Hum Reprod. 2025 Apr 17. PMID: 40246287.

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  • Published 10/1/2023

    Antkowiak L, Boynton-Jarrett R, Chiang SS, Castellon D, Gilbert PB, Juraska M, Sox CM, Huang CC. Violence Exposure Among Women in the Sex Industry and Their Children in El Alto, Bolivia: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study. Violence Vict. 2023 Oct 01; 38(5):736-753. PMID: 37827582.

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  • Published 7/7/2023

    Wise LA, Wang TR, Ncube CN, Lovett SM, Abrams J, Boynton-Jarrett R, Koenig MR, Geller RJ, Wesselink AK, Coleman CM, Hatch EE, James-Todd T. Use of Chemical Hair Straighteners and Fecundability in a North American Preconception Cohort. Am J Epidemiol. 2023 Jul 07; 192(7):1066-1080. PMID: 37005071.

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  • Published 6/9/2023

    Gresh A, Ahmed N, Boynton-Jarrett R, Sharifi M, Rosenthal MS, Fenick AM. Clinicians' Perspectives on Equitable Health Care Delivery in Group Well-Child Care. Acad Pediatr. 2023; 23(7):1385-1393. PMID: 37302699.

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  • Published 1/2/2023

    Viglione C, Boynton-Jarrett R. The GROWBABY Research Network: A Framework for Advancing Health Equity Through Community Engaged Practice-Based Research. Matern Child Health J. 2023 Feb; 27(2):210-217. PMID: 36588142.

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Education

  • Yale University School of Medicine, MD
  • Harvard School of Public Health, ScD
  • Princeton University, AB

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