About Yarden S. Fraiman

A neonatologist and health services researcher committed to eliminating health inequity through research, partnership, and intervention.

Dr. Fraiman is a health services researcher with a focus on the multi-level modifiable drivers of perinatal, neonatal, and pediatric health inequity. His primary research focus is to explore, measure, and address macro-level drivers both within healthcare settings, and outside the healthcare setting, such as the neighborhood, that potentiate birth inequity across the pediatric life-course and are amenable to population-level interventions. Dr. Fraiman’s research brings together eco-social theory, life-course epidemiology, and the public health critical race praxis to understand how, and at what level, disparities occur. He has received research support from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Research Fund, and the National Institutes of Health and his research has received multiple awards including the Joel Alpert Award from the Academic Pediatric Association and the Harvard Medical School Equity, Social Justice, and Advocacy Award. 

Dr. Fraiman completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton University, his medical training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his public health training at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his pediatrics training in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center, his neonatology training in the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program, and his research training in the Harvard-wide Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship.