Rhea Boyd is both a physician and a researcher. But she never wants to separate high-level academic questions from the direct needs of those around her.
When the pandemic began, Boyd — a pediatrician in the Bay Area — helped develop a national campaign for Black, Latinx, and Spanish-speaking communities to provide answers about Covid vaccines. She has worked with colleagues in the Academic Pediatric Association to develop a national child poverty curriculum, and also teaches a course for pediatrics residents at Stanford on structural inequality and health.