Rhea Boyd

Rhea W. Boyd is an American pediatrician and child and community health advocate. Boyd is a popular science communicator, making use of social media to amplify a diverse range of voices in an effort to improve the heath of communities of colour.[1]

Rhea W. Boyd
Born
Akron, Ohio
Alma materUniversity of Notre Dame (BA)
Vanderbilt University (MD)
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (MPH)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Francisco

Early life and education

Boyd grew up in Los Angeles and Akron, Ohio.[2] As a child, Boyd attended a predominantly-white Catholic school.[3] She wanted to be a physician.

In 2006, Boyd received a bachelor's degree in a customized program of Africana studies and health from the University of Notre Dame.[4][5] While in college she was a journalist for the student newspaper, where she wrote about race in America.[4] In 2010, Boyd received a medical degree is from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.[6] She moved to California, completing a residency in pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)'s UCSF Medical Center in 2013.[7]

While a medical resident at University of California, San Francisco Boyd launched a blog about being a paediatrician.[8] Boyd was part of the Paediatric Leadership for the Underserved residency, which trains paediatricians to provide healthcare for children from marginalised backgrounds.[9] In 2017, Boyd completed a Master of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She held a Commonwealth Fund Mongan Minority Health Policy Fellowship.[6]

Career

Boyd works as a clinical physician. Since she has partnered with San Diego 211 as chief medical officer. Boyd has taught academic programs on structural inequality and health.[10] She specialises in child and community health.[11] She has worked with physicians, professional bodies, local organizers and tech founders in the San Francisco Bay Area to increase access to health services.[12][3] Following the success of her early blogging experience, Boyd launched an independent platform (Rhea.MD), where she discussed the intersection of race, gender and health.[13] Boyd is particularly concerned about the impact of police brutality on the health and wellbeing of Black boys and men.[2][14]

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Boyd has spoken about the health disparities experienced by Black Americans.[15][16] In response to the murder of George Floyd, Boyd became more involved with political activism and the fight for social justice.[10][17] Boyd was one of many physicians who supported the George Floyd protests throughout the pandemic, saying “protest is a profound public health intervention”. In an interview with Time magazine, Boyd said, “If people were to understand that racism, and all of the social and political and economic inequalities that racism creates, ultimately harms people’s health. they would see that protest is a profound public health intervention, because it allows us to finally address and end forms of inequality,”.[18] On June 17, 2020, Boyd gave expert testimony to the U.S. Congress' House of Representatives' House Committee on Energy and Commerce on “Health Care Inequality: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 and the Health Care System”.[19][20]

Boyd worked with Monica McLemore to devise new standards on publishing racial health inequities.[21] Unfortunately, the academic publishing process has allowed scholarship that confuses and often attempts to minimise the role of racism in determining health outcomes. Boyd and McLemore believe that “the solution to racial health inequities is to address racism and its attendant harms and erect a new health care infrastructure that no longer profits from the persistence of inequitable disease”.Their suggestions included; (1) Denouncing Biological Race And The Insidious Harms Of Patient Blame, to stop (2) Obfuscating The Role Of Racism In Determining Health And Health Care and the implementation of more (3) Rigorous Standards For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities.[21]

Membership

Selected works and publications

Selected works
  • Boyd, Rhea W.; Ellison, Angela M.; Horn, Ivor B. (March 2016). "Police, Equity, and Child Health" (PDF). Pediatrics. 137 (3): e20152711. doi:10.1542/PEDS.2015-2711. PMID 26908673. Wikidata ()
  • Chamberlain, Lisa J.; Hanson, Elizabeth R.; Klass, Perri; Schickedanz, Adam; Nakhasi, Ambica; Barnes, Michelle M.; Berger, Susan; Boyd, Rhea W.; Dreyer, Benard P.; Meyer, Dodi; Navsaria, Dipesh; Rao, Sheela; Klein, Melissa (April 2016). "Childhood Poverty and Its Effect on Health and Well-being: Enhancing Training for Learners Across the Medical Education Continuum". Academic Pediatrics. 16 (3): S155–S162. doi:10.1016/J.ACAP.2015.12.012. PMID 27044694. Wikidata ()
  • Boyd, Rhea W (July 2018). "Police violence and the built harm of structural racism". The Lancet. 392 (10144): 258–259. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31374-6. PMID 29937191. Wikidata ()
  • Boyd, Rhea W (June 2019). "The case for desegregation". The Lancet. 393 (10190): 2484–2485. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31353-4. PMID 31232362. Wikidata ()
  • Hardeman, Rachel R.; Medina, Eduardo M.; Boyd, Rhea W. (10 June 2020). "Perspectives: Stolen Breaths". New England Journal of Medicine. 383 (3): 197–199. doi:10.1056/NEJMP2021072. PMID 32521156. Wikidata ()
  • Dreyer, Benard P.; Trent, Maria; Anderson, Ashaunta T.; Askew, George L.; Boyd, Rhea; Coker, Tumaini R.; Coyne-Beasley, Tamera; Fuentes-Afflick, Elena; Johnson, Tiffani; Mendoza, Fernando; Montoya-Williams, Diana; Oyeku, Suzette O.; Poitevien, Patricia; Spinks-Franklin, Adiaha A.I.; Thomas, Olivia W.; Walker-Harding, Leslie; Willis, Earnestine; Wright, Joseph L.; Berman, Stephen; Berkelhamer, Jay; Jenkins, Renee R.; Kraft, Colleen; Palfrey, Judith; Perrin, James M.; Stein, Fernando (26 June 2020). "The Death of George Floyd: Bending the Arc of History Towards Justice for Generations of Children" (PDF). Pediatrics. 146 (3): e2020009639. doi:10.1542/PEDS.2020-009639. PMID 32591435. S2CID 220120352.

Selected publications

References
  1. "Listen to the Dr. Rhea Boyd on general truths on our present healthcare system exposed by the pandemic..." Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH). 2020-05-29. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  2. "Profiles". Melanin in Medicine*. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  3. Chen, Christine (2019-05-22). "At the Intersections: Conversations with Dr. Rhea Boyd". Medium. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  4. Wycliff, Don; Krashna, David (2017-08-15). Black Domers: African-American Students at Notre Dame in Their Own Words. University of Notre Dame Pess. ISBN 978-0-268-10252-4.
  5. "RHEA W. BOYD, MD, MPH, FAAP - San Francisco Member At Large". American Academy of Pediatrics California Chapter 1. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  6. "Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH". The Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  7. "Program Alumni | Department of Pediatrics". pediatrics.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  8. Lingaas, Leslie. "Residents Launch Pediatric Blog to Foster Conversation About Children's Health". Residents Launch Pediatric Blog to Foster Conversation About Children's Health | UC San Francisco. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  9. "Rhea Boyd, MD at AAP National Conference 2017 | Department of Pediatrics". pediatrics.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  10. Glass, Kelly (2020-06-08). "Black kids are watching this moment. What will it teach them?". Vox. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  11. "S2Ep4: Dr. Rhea Boyd: Making the World Safer for Black Children Beyond Diversity Rhetoric - Woke WOC Docs". Poddtoppen (in Swedish). Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  12. "About Us". California Children's Trust. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  13. "Speakers". Act2019. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  14. "Police Violence and Public Health". KQED. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  15. Hardeman, Rachel R.; Medina, Eduardo M.; Boyd, Rhea W. (10 June 2020). "Perspectives: Stolen Breaths". New England Journal of Medicine. 383 (3): 197–199. doi:10.1056/NEJMP2021072. PMID 32521156. Wikidata ()
  16. Glenza, Jessica (2020-06-03). "'Really scary': experts fear protests and police risk accelerating Covid-19 spread". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  17. "A Discussion on Black Lives, Protest, and Democracy". ash.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  18. "Why So Many Doctors Support Protesting In a Pandemic". Time. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  19. "Hearing on "Health Care Inequality: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 and the Health Care System"". Democrats, Energy and Commerce Committee. U.S. House of Representatives. 17 June 2020.
  20. Boyd MD, MPH, Rhea W (17 June 2020). The Injustice of Inequitable Disease: Addressing Racial Health Inequities amid the COVID-19 Pandemic (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives.
  21. "On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities | Health Affairs". www.healthaffairs.org. doi:10.1377/hblog20200630.939347/full/ (inactive 2021-01-10). Retrieved 2020-07-06.CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2021 (link)
  22. Reid Chassiakos, Yolanda (Linda); Radesky, Jenny; Christakis, Dimitri; Moreno, Megan A.; Cross, Corinn (21 October 2016). "Children and Adolescents and Digital Media" (PDF). Pediatrics. 138 (5): e20162593. doi:10.1542/PEDS.2016-2593. PMID 27940795. S2CID 4861202.
  23. Yogman, Michael; Garner, Andrew; Hutchinson, Jeffrey; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick (September 2018). "The Power of Play: A Pediatric Role in Enhancing Development in Young Children" (PDF). Pediatrics. 142 (3): e20182058. doi:10.1542/peds.2018-2058. PMID 30126932. S2CID 52050090.
  24. Radesky, Jenny; Chassiakos, Yolanda (Linda) Reid; Ameenuddin, Nusheen; Navsaria, Dipesh (22 June 2020). "Digital Advertising to Children" (PDF). Pediatrics. 146 (1): e20201681. doi:10.1542/PEDS.2020-1681. PMID 32571990. S2CID 219986614.
  25. "COCM Leadership AAP Councils / Council on Communications and Media (COCM) / About COCM / COCM Leadership". American Academy of Pediatrics. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  26. Briscoe, Alex; Boyd, Rhea; Connell, Reed; Rosen, Nila (6 December 2018). "CCT Coalition Letter to Newsom Administration" (PDF). Letter to The Honorable Gavin Newsom, California Lieutenant Governor & Governor-elect.
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