Heather Burris

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Attending Neonatologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Dr. Burris studies the intersection of social and physical environmental factors that contribute to birth outcome inequity. She is PI of GeoBirth, a cohort study of all births in Penn Medicine from 2008 – 2020 with spatial, electronic health record, and perinatal data including detailed phenotyping of preterm births as spontaneous or medically-indicated.