Rhea Boyd

Rhea Boyd is a pediatrician, public health advocate, and scholar. She writes on and teaches about the relationship between structural racism, inequity and health.

Dr. Boyd works clinically, teaches nationally, and has a scholarly focus on the child and public health impacts of structural inequality. She partners with community-based and non-profit organizations, public health departments, and academic centers to understand and address forms of social inequality that contribute to poor and inequitable health outcomes. She is the Senior Advisor on Equity and Justice for The California Children’s Trust, an initiative to advance mental health access for children and youth across California.

In partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation, Black Coalition Against COVID, and Unidos US, Dr. Boyd co-developed THE CONVERSATION: Between Us, About Us, a national campaign to bring credible information about the COVID vaccines directly to Black, Latinx, and Spanish-speaking communities.

Dr. Boyd graduated cum laude with a BA in Africana Studies and Health from the University of Notre Dame. She earned her MD at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at University of California, San Francisco. In 2017, she graduated from the Commonwealth Fund Mongan Minority Health Policy Fellowship at Harvard University’s School of Public Health, earning an MPH.