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 9/22/2026

    Viglione C, Thompson-Lastad A, Dubinsky E, Powell H, Gallas M, Lubega H, Boynton-Jarrett R. Challenges to Sustaining Dyad Group Care During COVID-19: A Mixed-Methods Study of Implementation Across Eight Practices. Acad Pediatr. 2026 Sep 22; 103456. PMID: 42772671.

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  • Published 9/9/2026

    Lovett SM, Hoffman MN, Geller RJ, Wesselink AK, Abrams J, Coleman CM, Sabbath EL, Ukah UV, Boynton-Jarrett R, Ncube CN, Wise LA. Discrimination and risk of spontaneous abortion in a preconception cohort study. Soc Sci Med. 2026 Nov; 408:119820. PMID: 42731444.

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  • Published 6/24/2026

    Wise LA, Kuan KE, Nillni YI, Noel N, Bond JC, Lovett SM, Kuriyama AS, Howe CJ, Rothman KJ, Boynton-Jarrett R. Early life adversity and polycystic ovary syndrome among North American pregnancy planners. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2026 Jun 24. PMID: 42342098.

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  • Published 6/22/2026

    Viglione C, Terrana A, Wu TC, Tu XM, Arredondo EM, Crespo NC, Gidwani P, Godino J, Rhee KE, Boynton-Jarrett R, Rabin BA, Hekler E. The Circles of Resilience model: exploring how social and structural conditions foster child resilience in the context of ACEs. Front Public Health. 2026; 14:1802488. PMID: 42440518.

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  • Published 3/17/2026

    Kuriyama AS, Lovett SM, Wesselink AK, Kuan KE, Hoffman MN, Nillni YI, Ncube CN, Wise LA, Boynton-Jarrett R. Childhood adversity and spontaneous abortion in a North American preconception cohort study. Am J Epidemiol. 2026 Mar 17; 195(4):982-990. PMID: 41222293.

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Education

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

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