Paula Magee, MD, MPH, is a pediatric critical care attending physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Throughout her medical career, she has used her policy background to improve understanding of how social factors, including racism, affect patient outcomes through research and scholarly activities. Magee’s research examines how unmet social needs, racism, and neighborhood conditions are associated with the development of critical illness and other disparate outcomes in critically ill children. She is committed to leveraging her research to inform neighborhood-level interventions and policies aimed at reducing health disparities.
Magee earned her medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia; completed her pediatric residency at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., during which she participated in the George Washington Residency Fellowship in Health Policy; and completed her pediatric critical care fellowship at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She also completed the Commonwealth Fund Mongan Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and earned a Master of Public Health in Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
