Judith Palfrey

Judith Palfrey (born 1943) is the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the author of Community Child Health: An Action Plan for Today (1995) and Child Health In America: Making A Difference Through Advocacy (2006), and co-author of the Disney Encyclopedia of Baby and Childcare (1999). She is also Housemaster of Adams House at Harvard University along with her husband Sean Palfrey who is also a pediatrician in Boston.

Dr. Palfrey is a 1967 graduate of Radcliffe College and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a fellowship in community child health at Children's Hospital Boston. She was chief of the Division of General Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston for 25 years and has recently retired from that role to become director of the Childcare International Pediatric Center at Children's Hospital Boston. In 2008 she was named President-Elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics for 2009-2010. From September to December 2011, Palfrey was executive director of Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative.

One son is John Palfrey, a professor of law at Harvard Law School. One son is Quentin Palfrey, a senior advisor for the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy . Her daughter Katy Palfrey is the program manager of Found Animals Michelson Prize & Grants in Reproductive Biology.