Pinderhughes Diversity Lecture Series
Renée Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD
“An Ounce of Prevention: Building Communities of Opportunity to Mitigate Structural Inequities and Childhood Adversities”
2019 Lecture by Renée Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, and Founding Director, Vital Village Community Engagement Network
Friday, April 26, 2019 • 9:00–11:00 a.m.
Yawkey Athletic Center, Murray Room
Boston College
1.25 CEUs available.
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 well-being 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. 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. Through dedicated community partnerships, her current work is developing community-based strategies to promote child well-being and prevent childhood adversities. She has received numerous awards for teaching, clinical care, and public health, including the Massachusetts Public Health Association Paul Revere Award for outstanding impact on public health and an honorary degree. She received her AB from Princeton University, her MD from Yale School of Medicine, and ScD in Social Epidemiology from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and completed residency in Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
The Pinderhughes Diversity Lecture Series brings changemakers to campus to speak about pressing topics within the field. The series honors Professor Emerita Elaine Pinderhughes, whose vision and mentorship has long inspired students to advocate for social progress.
2018
Cia Verschelden, Executive Director of Institutional Assessment
Office of Academic Effectiveness, University of Central Oklahoma
"Bandwidth Recovery: Reclaiming Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Other 'Differentisms'"
2017
Pam Cross, Journalist, News Reporter and Social Entrepreneur
"What Phenomenal Women Know"
2016
Elaine Pinderhughes, Professor Ermerita at Boston College School of Social Work
Patricia Romney, Licensed Clinical and Organizational Psychologist at Romney Associates, Inc.
Vanessa Jackson, Soul Doula at Healing Circles
"Understanding Power: 21st Century Human Services Imperative"
2015
Salome Raheim, Dean and Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work
"Race and Justice: From Analysis to Action"
2014
Mary Catherine Bateson, Writer and Cultural Anthropologist
"On the Work of Societal Healing: The Age of Active Wisdom"
2013
Christine Griffin, Executive Director, The Disability Law Center
"Diversity and Inclusion: When Will People with Disabilities Be Included?"
2012
Vincent D. Rougeau, Dean, Boston College Law School
"Reflections on Justice and Religious Diversity: Why Living Together Is Better than Apart"
2011
Dr. Jack Kirkland, Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
"The Black Masses—Permanently in Poverty—Slavery—Depression—Recession—as Far as the Eye Can See. Unless…"
2010
Dr. Usha George, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University, Toronto
"Immigrants and Refugees: Settlement Issues and Service Delivery Models"
2009
Dr. Beverly Greene, PhD, ABPP, Professor of Psychology at St. John's University, NY
"Social Marginalization By and Between the Marginalized: What the Same Sex Marriage Debate Hath Wrought. Implications for Mental Health Providers."
2008
Dr. Monica McGoldrick, Director of Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, NJ
"Culture Matters: But What Difference Does It Make?"
2007
Dr. Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Clinical Psychology Professor, Rutgers University
"The Treatment of African American Clients and Families"
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Professor Ruth McRoy and Elaine Pinderhughes with 2018 Pinderhughes Fellowship winner Abril Harris.
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