Renée D. Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD

Renée D. Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD, is a pediatrician and social epidemiologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Dr. Boynton-Jarrett 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.

Dr. Boynton-Jarrett's 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 the neighborhood characteristics that influence these patterns.