Judith Palfrey (born 1945) is the

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Professor of

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and the author of ''Community Child Health: An Action Plan for Today'' (1995) and ''Child Health In America: Making A Difference Through Advocacy'' (2006), and co-editor of ''Global Child Health Advocacy'' (2014) and the ''Disney Encyclopedia of Baby and Childcare'' (1995). She is also the former Faculty Dean of Adams House at

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along with her husband Sean Palfrey who is also a pediatrician in Boston. Palfrey is a 1967 graduate of

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. She received her MD in 1971 from the

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. She completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a fellowship in community child health at Children's Hospital Boston. She was chief of the Division of General Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston for 22 years. In 2008 she was named President-Elect of the

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for 2009-2010. From September to December 2011, Palfrey was executive director of

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's Let's Move! initiative. Currently, she is the director of the Global Pediatrics ProgramGlobal Pediatrics Program, Boston Children's Hospital
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, previously a professor and Vice Dean of

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before becoming Head of School at Phillips Academy, is now President of the MacArthur Foundation. Her middle child,

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, ran for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and is the former Executive Director of J-PAL. Her youngest,

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, is the CEO o
Conservation Centers for Species Survival (C2S2)

Major publications

*Palfrey J.S. (1995) ''Community Child Health: An Action Plan for Today'' *Katz S.L., New M.I., Palfrey J.S. and Schulman I. (1995) ''The Disney Encyclopedia of Baby and Child Care'' *Palfrey J.S. (2006) ''Child Health in America. Making a Difference Through Advocacy'' *Palfrey, J.S. (editor) (2014) ''Global Child Health Advocacy''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Palfrey, Judith 1945 births Harvard Medical School faculty Radcliffe College alumni Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni Living people Albert Einstein College of Medicine alumni