Judith Palfrey

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Judith Palfrey (b. 1945) 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 the Master of Adams House along with her husband Sean Palfrey at Harvard University.

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 is now the chief of the Division of General Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston.

Her son is John Palfrey, a faculty member at Harvard Law School.