Deborah A. Frank, MD
Professor in Child Health and Well-Being
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Pediatrics
Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics

MD, Harvard Medical School
BA, Radcliffe College



Deborah A. Frank serves as BUSM professor of Pediatrics; director, Grow Clinic for Children at Boston Medical Center (BMC); and founder and principal investigator of Children’s HealthWatch, a network of pediatric and public health researchers working to improve child health. A highly respected national authority, she has testified before both the United States and Massachusetts legislatures on the growing national problem of hunger and its effects on children. Frank also leads research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse on the effects of intrauterine exposure to cocaine and other substances on children’s long term development. She advocates at hearings and in the media against criminalizing addicted mothers or stigmatizing their children.

Frank has served on numerous committees and advisory boards including the Mayor’s Hunger Commission, the Massachusetts Child Hunger Initiative and the Physicians Task Force on Childhood Hunger in Massachusetts. She has received awards in recognition for her work including the 2004 Standing Ovation Award, Massachusetts Human Services Coalition; 2007 Woman of Valor Award, Jewish Funds for Justice; 2008 Woman of Justice Award, Boston Lawyer’s Weekly, and more recently in 2010 Dr. Frank received the Massachusetts Health Council Outstanding Leadership Award and the Physician Advocacy Merit Award from the Institute on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University. Frank is the author of more than 50 papers and articles.

Assistant Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Community Health Sciences





Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Young Adult Follow Up
07/01/2010 - 03/31/2017 (PI)
NIH-NIDA
5R01 DA006532-25

Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Young Adult Follow-Up
09/15/2012 - 03/31/2016 (PI)
NIH-NIDA
5R01DA006532-24S2

Small Capital Grant Grow Clinic Tablets
07/01/2014 - 12/31/2015 (PI)
Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation

Growth and Nutrition Program
07/01/2006 - 09/30/2015 (PI)
DPH

Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Young Adult Follow-up
04/01/2012 - 03/31/2015 (PI)
NIH-NIDA
5R01DA006532-24S1

C-SNAP
01/01/2009 - 04/30/2014 (PI)
MacArthur Foundation

Developing and Dissemination A Hardship Screening and Referral Training for Med. Professionals and O
12/01/2012 - 03/31/2014 (PI)
Claneil Foundation, Inc

Grow Clinic Support
01/01/2006 - 03/31/2014 (PI)
Morgan Stanley Foundation

Children's HealthWatch: Consulting Services
09/01/2012 - 09/30/2013 (PI)
PHC HRSA-SAMHSA

Research on Children of Disconnected Mothers
09/01/2009 - 12/31/2012 (PI)
Annie E. Casey Fdtn

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Yr Title Project-Sub Proj Pubs
2014 Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Young Adult Follow Up 5R01DA006532-25 40
2013 Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Young Adult Follow Up 5R01DA006532-24 40
2012 Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Young Adult Follow Up 3R01DA006532-23S2 40
2012 Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Young Adult Follow Up 5R01DA006532-23 40
2012 Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Young Adult Follow Up 3R01DA006532-23S1 40
2011 Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Young Adult Follow Up 5R01DA006532-22 40
2010 Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Young Adult Follow Up 2R01DA006532-21A1 40
2008 Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Adolescent Follow-up 5R01DA006532-20 40
2007 PRIMARY CARE ENRICHMENT PROTOCOL (PEP) 2M01RR000533-39-8204 503
2007 Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Adolescent Follow-up 5R01DA006532-19 40
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  1. Poblacion A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Frank DA, Esteves G, Rateau LJ, Heeren TC, Coleman S, Black MM, Cutts DB, Lê-Scherban F, Ochoa ER, Sandel M, Sheward R, Cook J. Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2023 Oct; 123(10S):S89-S102.e4.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37730309
     
  2. Ettinger de Cuba S, Bovell-Ammon A, Ahmad N, Bruce C, Poblacion A, Rateau LJ, Coleman SM, Black MM, Frank DA, Lê-Scherban F, Henchy G, Ochoa E, Sandel M, Cutts DB. Child Care Feeding Programs Associated With Food Security and Health for Young Children From Families With Low Incomes. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2023 Oct; 123(10):1429-1439.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37302653
     
  3. Lê-Scherban F, Ettinger de Cuba S, Bovell-Ammon A, Coleman S, Rateau L, Cutts D, Black M, Heeren T, Frank DA. Association Between Material Hardship in Families With Young Children and Federal Relief Program Participation by Race and Ethnicity and Maternal Nativity. JAMA Health Forum. 2023 Apr 07; 4(4):e230508.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37083823; PMCID: PMC10122179; DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.0508;
     
  4. Parker MG, de Cuba SE, Rateau LJ, Shea M, Sandel MT, Frank DA, Cutts DB, Heeren T, Lê-Scherban F, Black MM, Ochoa ER, Rose-Jacobs R, Garg A. Associations of household unmet basic needs and health outcomes among very low birth weight children. J Perinatol. 2023 Mar; 43(3):364-370.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36750715
     
  5. Bovell-Ammon A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Lê-Scherban F, Rateau L, Heeren T, Cantave C, Green KA, Frank DA, Cutts D, Ochoa E, Sandel M. Changes in Economic Hardships Arising During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Nativity and Race. J Immigr Minor Health. 2023 Apr; 25(2):483-488.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36334182; PMCID: PMC9638452; DOI: 10.1007/s10903-022-01410-z;
     
  6. Cutts DB, Ettinger de Cuba S, Bovell-Ammon A, Wellington C, Coleman SM, Frank DA, Black MM, Ochoa E, Chilton M, Lê-Scherban F, Heeren T, Rateau LJ, Sandel M. Eviction and Household Health and Hardships in Families With Very Young Children. Pediatrics. 2022 Oct 01; 150(4).View Related Profiles. PMID: 36120757; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2022-056692;
     
  7. Ettinger de Cuba S, Mbamalu M, Bovell-Ammon A, Black MM, Cutts DB, Lê-Scherban F, Coleman SM, Ochoa ER, Heeren TC, Poblacion A, Sandel M, Bruce C, Rateau LJ, Frank DA. Prenatal WIC Is Associated with Increased Birth Weight of Infants Born in the United States with Immigrant Mothers. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2022 Aug; 122(8):1514-1524.e4.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35151905
     
  8. Parker MG, de Cuba SE, Rateau LJ, Sandel MT, Frank DA, Cutts DB, Heeren TC, Lê-Scherban F, Black MM, Ochoa ER, Garg A. Household unmet basic needs in the first 1000 days and preterm birth status. J Perinatol. 2022 03; 42(3):389-396.View Related Profiles. PMID: 35102255
     
  9. Tang MN, Adolphe S, Rogers SR, Frank DA. Failure to Thrive or Growth Faltering: Medical, Developmental/Behavioral, Nutritional, and Social Dimensions. Pediatr Rev. 2021 Nov; 42(11):590-603.View Related Profiles. PMID: 34725219
     
  10. Frank DA, Bruce C, Ochoa E. SNAP Is Medicine for Food Insecurity. Pediatrics. 2020 09; 146(3). PMID: 32826338
     
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This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 190 publications over 41 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 1996

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Children in Poverty
Failure to Thrive
Food Insecurity
Prenatal Drug Exposure

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