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    Rhonda Boyd, PhD

    Associate Professor
    Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) & University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Dr. Rhonda Boyd (she/her), who is a mental health advisor for The Steve Fund, is a faculty member at PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and an associate professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is also the associate director of CHOP’s Child and Adolescent Mood Program in the outpatient clinic of Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where she practices as a licensed psychologist specializing in evaluation and treatment of youth with depression and suicidal risk.

    Dr. Boyd has many related research interests. She has conducted several studies examining at-risk children and mothers, including urban children and families with maternal depression. She has also developed and adapted interventions for racially/ethnically diverse families with maternal depression in multiple settings. She has served as a principal investigator and co-investigator on multiple federal grants, including those from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the National Institutes of Health. Currently, she is a Co-Investigator for two Practice-Based Suicide Prevention Research Centers funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.

    In addition to her clinical and research roles, Dr. Boyd previously served as the co-chair of the Society for Prevention Research’s Prevention Science’s Role in Reducing Disparities and Promoting Equity Task Force. Additionally, she participated in the workgroup for the Congressional Black Caucus Emergency Taskforce on Black Youth Suicide & Mental Health. She is also a fellow of the American Psychological Association a member of the National Scientific Council on Adolescence.

    Dr. Boyd received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Iowa. She also completed two postdoctoral fellowships at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and a federal policy fellowship with the Society for Research in Child Development, where she was placed at the National Institute of Mental Health and the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families.

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