PROGRAMS FOR FELLOWS AND JUNIOR FACULTY

THE COMMONWEALTH FUND/HARVARD UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP IN MINORITY HEALTH POLICY

FELLOWS' BIOS: 2006-2007

STEPHANIE HALE, MD, MPH, FAAP

Neonatologist, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Dr. Hale recently joined the Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as a Neonatologist and an Instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests focus on disparities as they relate to neonatal outcomes and mortality in the U.S., as well as quality improvement within the neonatal intensive care unit, with emphasis on those centers serving vulnerable populations. Dr. Hale’s goal is to be an advocate for the health care of all children and to develop successful programs and policies that will improve the health and survival of infants in underserved communities across the nation. Dr. Hale has been the recipient of a Presidential Scholarship at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2006-2007, and the Dr. Milton Rosenbluth Fellowship at Cornell University Medical School. Her community service endeavors have included teaching STD and AIDS programs in schools in Philadelphia and New York City, as well as mentoring at the Inwood House for Pregnant Teens and “Lifting as We Climb” program.

Dr. Hale received her Bachelor’s of Science from Vanderbilt University in 1997 and her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 2001. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2004 and her fellowship in Neonatology at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles/University of Southern California Medical Center in 2006. She received an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2007 as a CFHU Fellow.

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