Deborah A. Frank

Boston University School of Medicine

Deborah A. Frank, MD, has spent her entire career at Boston Medical Center as a developmental behavioral pediatrician who founded the multidisciplinary Grow Clinic for Children at Boston Medical Center in 1984. It serves a diverse population of young children in low-income families suffering from inadequate nutrition and other negative social determinants of health.
She is also one of the founding principal investigators of Children’s HealthWatch (www.childrenshealthwatch.org) with a special concern for food insecurity.
During the last decade of the 20th century and the first of the 21st, she was also active in research and advocacy debunking the clearly racist “crack baby” myth.

Areas of Expertise

• Social determinants of Health, especially child health

Methodology

• Qualitative Methods
• Survey Methods and Questionnaires