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


Early life and education

Boyd grew up in
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and
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. As a child, Boyd attended a predominantly-white Catholic school. She wanted to be a physician. In 2006, Boyd received a bachelor's degree in a customized program of
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and health from the
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. While in college she was a journalist for the student newspaper, where she wrote about race in America. In 2010, Boyd received a medical degree is from
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. She moved to
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, completing a residency in pediatrics at the
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(UCSF)'s
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in 2013. While a medical resident at
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Boyd launched a blog about being a paediatrician. Boyd was part of the ''Paediatric Leadership for the Underserved'' residency, which trains paediatricians to provide healthcare for children from marginalised backgrounds. In 2017, Boyd completed a
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at the
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. She held a Commonwealth Fund Mongan Minority Health Policy Fellowship.


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
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and health. She specialises in child and community health. She has worked with physicians, professional bodies, local organizers and tech founders in the
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to increase access to health services. 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. Boyd is particularly concerned about the impact of
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on the health and wellbeing of Black boys and men. Throughout the
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, Boyd has spoken about the health disparities experienced by Black Americans. In response to the
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, Boyd became more involved with political activism and the fight for social justice. Boyd was one of many physicians who supported the
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throughout the pandemic, saying “protest is a profound public health intervention”. In an interview with ''
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'', 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,”. On June 17, 2020, Boyd gave expert testimony to the U.S. Congress' House of Representatives'
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on “Health Care Inequality: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 and the Health Care System”. Boyd worked with Monica McLemore to devise new standards on publishing racial health inequities. 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.


Membership

* 2016–present:
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, California Chapter 1, Board Member * 2016–present:
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, Executive Committee on Communications and Media, Executive Committee Member * California Children's Trust, Director of Equity and Justice


Selected works and publications


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Rhea Boyd
at Palo Alto Medical Foundation * {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyd, Rhea Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Notre Dame alumni UCSF School of Medicine faculty Stanford University School of Medicine faculty 21st-century African-American physicians 21st-century American physicians People from Akron, Ohio American pediatricians American women pediatricians Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni Vanderbilt University School of Medicine alumni American women academics