Krysten North, MD, MPH

Krysten North is a neonatologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, and an Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She completed her undergraduate studies at Grove City College, her medical degree at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, and her Master’s in Public Health from the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health. For her clinical training, she did her pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and her neonatal-perinatal medical fellowship at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Dr. North studies the impact of early nutrition on growth and neurodevelopment in small, vulnerable newborns living in low- and middle-income countries. She has received a K23-award from NICHD to evaluate the relationship between maternal micronutrient supplementation, breast milk B-complex vitamin composition, and infant neurodevelopment in Ethiopia. Her research also includes analyses of breast milk composition among a lactation cohort in rural Bangladesh, a study of low-birthweight breastfeeding competency and growth in India, Malawi, and Tanzania, as well as a series of studies related to infant neurodevelopment in Ethiopia. Dr. North is also passionate about training the next generation of physicians globally, and routinely teaches neonatal resuscitation and other newborn topics to clinicians working in a range of settings.