Emily Feinberg, ScD, CPNP is Professor in the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice and a faculty member at the Hassenfeld Child Innovation Institute. She received her ScD and MSc from Harvard School of Public Health, my MSN in Parent-Child Nursing from Simmons College. She is trained clinically as a pediatric nurse practitioner and continue to see patients at Dothouse Health, a federally qualified community health center in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. She serves as Director of New Emerging Initiative for TEAM UP for Children Scaling and Innovation Center, a pediatric integrated behavioral care initiative that has been implemented in 7 Massachusetts community health centers and holds adjunct appointments at Boston University School of Public Health and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.
The overarching theme of her work has been the redesign of community-based child health systems. She has applied this lens to a number of public health priorities, including maternal depression screening, management, and prevention; autism services; and, most recently, the integration of child mental health services within pediatric primary care. She leads research that investigates models that engage lay health workers (family navigators, family partners, community health workers) to assure equitable delivery of behavioral health services Her work has been funded by National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute for Nursing Research, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the March of Dimes Foundation, and the Health Resources and Services Administration.
She has a long history of mentoring doctoral students, postdoctoral student and junior faculty. I have served as the served as the primary mentor/dissertation chair to over 20 mentees.
