Selected Published Work
The Choice to Vaccinate Has Never Been Free The Nation, 2021
Each of Us Lives in One of Two Americas The Hill, 2021
Medicine’s Privileged Gatekeepers: Producing Harmful Ignorance About Racism And Health (co-authored with Nancy Krieger, Fernando De Maio, and Aletha Maybank) Health Affairs Blog, 2021
If Only Trust Was Enough The Crisis, 2021
On Shame and Healing: The truths that lie beneath our loneliest year The Nation, 2021
Black People Need Better Vaccine Access, Not Better Vaccine Attitudes The New York Times, 2021
In the 2020 US election, we can choose a just future The Lancet, 2020
Who Will Stand Up for Black Women? The Nation, 2020
Jacob Blake’s police shooting highlights the hidden victims of police violence NBC News, 2020
Schools: To Open or Not to Open? That is Not the Question The Nation, 2020
What It Means When You Wear a Mask—and When You Refuse To The Nation, 2020
Stolen Breaths (co-authored with Drs. Rachel Hardeman and Eduardo Medina) New England Journal of Medicine, 2020
On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities (Co-authored with Edwin Lindo and Drs. Lachelle Weeks and Monica McLemore) Health Affairs Blog, 2020
The Case for Desegregation The Lancet, 2019
The Weight of the Little American Academy of Pediatrics Voices Blog, 2019
Police Violence and the Built Harm of Structural Racism The Lancet, 2018
If Congress Guts Women’s Health Services, Girls Will Suffer Rewire News, 2017
Police, Equity, and Child Health (Co-authored with Drs. Angela Ellison and Ivor Horn) Pediatrics, 2016
The Evolution of Virtual Violence: How Mobile Screens Provide Windows to Real Violence (Co-authored with Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson) Pediatrics, 2016
Congressional Hearings
Witness testimony, “Health Care Inequality: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 and the Health Care System,” United States Congress, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health (June 17, 2020)
Read “The Injustice of Inequitable Disease.” View the recording.
Selected Interviews
Why Not Just Tell Everyone to Wear Masks, New York Times, 2021
Health expert: Getting vaccinated is the best way to protect kids from COVID-19, NY1 News, 2021
The Best Vaccine Incentive Might be Paid Time Off, MIT Technology Review, 2021
No, the Unvaccinated Aren’t All Just Being Difficult, New York Times, 2021
America Is Getting Unvaccinated People All Wrong, The Atlantic, 2021
The Misinformation Is Literally Killing Us, Don Lemon Tonight on CNN, 2021
Campaign Answers Black American’s Questions About COVID-19 Vaccines, KTTV (FOX) Los Angeles, 2021
Midday Fix: A New Campaign By Black Health Care Workers for Black People about the COVID-19 Vaccines, WGN (IND) Chicago, 2021
‘The Conversation: Between Us and About Us’ is a new campaign to address COVID-19 vaccine questions within the Black community, KTLA | Los Angeles, 2021
The Conversation: Between Us, About Us – The Vaccine and The Black Community, Hot 103 | Kansas City, 2021
How structural racism is magnifying the public health crisis PBS News Hour, 2020
You Might Not Know If Your Kid Has Covid-19 The New Republic, 2020
How to Actually Talk to Anti-Maskers The New York Times, 2020
The US badly needs a wake-up call on the coronavirus pandemic Vox, 2020
What public health experts want critics to know about why they support the protests Vox, 2020
Race is not the reason Black Americans have a higher risk of dying from the coronavirus. It’s racism Business Insider, 2020
How to talk to your children about protests and racism CNN, 2020
Black kids are watching this movement. What will it teach them? Vox, 2020
‘Bear Our Pain’: The Plea For More Black Mental Health Workers NPR, 2020
Podcasts and Radio
New Information from the CDC Warns Delta Variant More Severe, The Takeaway on NPR’s WNYC, 2021
A Doctor Battles The Diverse Concerns Of Unvaccinated Americans, NPR Morning Edition, 2021
Panic! At The Delta, Today, Explained by Vox, 2021
Trust the Vaccine In the Bubble: From the Frontlines, 2021
Challenging Racist Systems, Processes, and Analyses in Social Care SIREN (Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network – at UCSF), 2021
The Racial Disparities, Systemic Racism Behind Who Has Received Vaccines NPR Morning Edition, 2021
Dialogues: The Impact of Police Violence on Black Mothers Expecting More Podcast, 2021
Pathways to Pediatrics with Dr. Rhea Boyd Pediatrics On Call Podcast, 2020
Dance, Protest, and Public Health The Reference Desk, 2020
It Takes a Toll Tradeoff’s Podcast on Policing and Health, 2020
Dr. Rhea Boyd on general truths on our present healthcare system exposed by the pandemic DASH Podcast, 2020
Despite COVID Risks, Experts And Officials Support Public Demonstrations WGBH, 2020
Making the World Safer for Black Children Beyond Diversity Rhetoric Woke WOC Docs Podcast, 2019
Police Violence and Public Health KQED, 2015
Videos and Lectures
Doctors Debunk COVID Myths Targeting Black Communities PBS Amanpour and Company, 2021
How Structural Racism is Magnifying the Public Health Crisis PBS Newshour, 2020
A Discussion on Black Lives, Protest, and Democracy Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center, 2020
COVID and Racial Inequities: Unpacking the Anti-Black Response, University of Chicago Center on Race and Capitalism, 2020
The Intersectionality of Race, COVID-19 and Community Health Virtual Town Hall with Rochester NAACP, 2020
A Framework to Approach Racial Health Inequities during the COVID 19 Pandemic American Academy of Pediatrics, 2020
Re-Imagining California’s Behavioral Health Systems UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2019
Snapshots for Social Justice: Social Media for Advocacy Keynote for American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition YouTube, 2017
Rhea Boyd MD, MPH 