Discipline(s):
Medicine, Epidemiology, Public Health
Area(s) of Expertise:
Pediatrics, Early Childhood, Birth Outcomes, Health Disparities
E-Mail:
dpjutte@berkeley.edu
Background:
Douglas Jutte, MD, MPH received his BA from Cornell University before completing an MD at Harvard in 1996. While in medical school he worked in the Dominican Republic evaluating childhood malnutrition in several rural communities, and in Guatemala he studied the interaction of biomarkers for iron deficiency anemia in children. After completing his residency at Stanford University and serving as chief resident, Jutte joined Stanford’s Division of General Pediatrics. There he worked in a community clinic and health van with Mexican immigrants and homeless families. Interest in Latino health and behavioral pediatrics led to research assessing the validity of psychosocial screening tools in Hispanic children. In 2003, Dr. Jutte completed an M.P.H. in epidemiology at UC Berkeley. His research interests are resilience and vulnerability in children and the biological links through which social-contextual factors contribute to a child’s long-term medical, psychosocial and cognitive outcomes. Current projects include work with the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy using the Population Data Repository to examine interactive relationships between biological and social factors present at birth to long-term health and educational outcomes, and a UC Berkeley-based pilot study evaluating SES-related differences in family interaction and communication on development of the pre-frontal cortex.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Douglas Jutte's available publications in PubMed.
