Renee Boynton-Jarrett

Renee Boynton-Jarrett

Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Boston University

Boston University School of Medicine

Renée Boynton-Jarrett, 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 Network. Vital Village uses a trauma-informed lens to improve community capacity to promote child wellbeing in Boston and support coalitions nationally through the NOW Forum. Her scholarship has focused on early-life adversities as life course social determinants of health.

Areas of Expertise

  • Health and Medicine
  • Public Health
  • Social Epidemiology
  • Population Health

Methodology

  • Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
  • Focus Groups
  • Interviews
  • Mixed Methods
  • Qualitative Methods
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Randomized Control Trials (RCTs)
  • Social Network Analysis