Lindsay Rosenfeld

Dr. Lindsay E. Rosenfeld is a social epidemiologist with research, practice, and policy interests focused on the social determinants of health and child equity. She specializes in health literacy, early childhood and developmental needs, families, and neighborhoods. Dr. Rosenfeld is a Scientist and Lecturer with the Institute for Child, Youth, & Family Policy (ICYFP), Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy & Management. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Northeastern University's Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice as well as a Scholar in Health Literacy Studies at the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health. She has taught graduate courses, including HS502A: Child, Youth, and Family Poverty - Research & Policy as well as HS329F: Introduction to Epidemiology. She has also taught many undergraduate courses: HSSP100b: Introduction to Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Population Health, HSSP112b: Perspectives on Child Health and Well-Being, and HSSP120bj: Health Care Landscapes, a course in the Food, Lifestyle, and Health Justice Brandeis Semester {at Brandeis}; Health Literacy {at Harvard}; Race, Ethnicity, and Health {at Northeastern}. Throughout her career, Dr. Rosenfeld has served in numerous research, policy, teaching, and community social-service capacities—she is passionate about the utility of research for program and policy application. Examples include being a representative to the MA Interagency Coordinating Council on Early Intervention and the Beth Israel NICU research advisory committee, a founding member of the Boston Child Health Impact Assessment Working Group, and a second-grade teacher in Compton, California. At the ICYFP and in collaboration with area universities, she works on several projects: child equity and policy with diversitydatakids.org; PREPARED (Parents Responding, Engaging & PARticipating for new Environments for children with Disabilities); NOURISH (Nutrition Opportunities to Understand Reforms Involving Student Health); and The Meaning and Impact of Limited Literacy on the Lives of People with Serious Mental Illness. Dr. Rosenfeld earned her bachelor’s degree in women’s studies from Brown University and both her master’s degree and doctorate in public health from the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health.

Expertise

• Public health, Health Equity, Child Equity, Social Determinants of Health, Racial/Ethnic Health Inequities, Early Childhood, Program Planning and Evaluation, Health Literacy/Communications, Social Policy and (Urban) Health, Health in All Policies, Health Impact Assessment

• Multisectoral, Multilevel and Interdisciplinary collaboration and partnership; Systems Change for Equitable Opportunities

Awards and Honors

• New Leaders Council Fellow (2012)
• Dr. Fang Ching Sun Memorial Award, Harvard School of Public Health (2009)
• Albert Schweitzer Fellow (2003 - 2004)
• Rappaport Public Policy (2003)