Ariela Braverman Bronstein MD PhD MPH (she/her/hers) is a pediatrician and public health researcher. She is currently a Senior Epidemiologist at the Institute for Community Health and a Health and Equity Research Advisor at the Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research, where she oversees a range of research studies to contribute her quantitative methodological skills and content expertise in public health. Dr. Braverman currently leads projects related to structural racism in housing, immigrant health and wellbeing, and child mental health, among others. She trains and manages researchers and epidemiologists and seeks to contribute high quality mixed-methods findings to pressing public health questions at local, national, and global levels.

Prior to joining ICH, Dr. Braverman was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Drexel University where she worked on the Urban Health in Latin America (SALURBAL) project, applying complex multilevel modeling to analyze individual-, household-, city-, and country-level data identifying urban determinants of diverse maternal and child outcomes. Her past experiences include working at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico, where she was involved in multiple projects using complex survey data to assess different health outcomes and evaluate interventions such as the Sugar Sweetened Beverage taxation, and working as a pediatrician in Mexico City and with Doctors Without Borders in South Sudan. Dr. Braverman received her MD from the Anahuac University in Mexico City where she completed her residency in pediatrics at the Spanish Hospital. She is fluent in Spanish and French. She holds an MPH with a focus on epidemiology and maternal and child health from Boston University and a PhD in Epidemiology from Drexel University.