Dina Burstein, MD, MPH

Dina Burstein, MD, MPH

Project Director
HOPE National Resource Center

Biography

Dina Burstein, MD MPH is an experienced physician, healthcare project designer, and leader with over 20 years of success in scientific research, grant writing, analysis, training, and clinical practice. Her aim is to enhance the well-being of individuals and the community by presenting and promoting programs while leveraging proficiency in research, care management, injury prevention, and clinical effectiveness.

Dr. Burstein is the Project Director at the HOPE National Resource Center located within the Center for Community-Engaged Medicine at Tufts Medicine and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM). At the HOPE National Resource Center, she oversees its operations, leads the research team on grant and manuscript writing, and mentors undergraduate, graduate, and medical students through its internship program. In her previous role as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, she directed injury prevention-focused community outreach programming and community-based research projects and taught and mentored students.

Dr. Burstein has co-led numerous research projects focused on positive childhood experiences (PCEs). With the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, she helped launch the Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences (PCEs & ACEs) Data dashboard and provided input in creating a statewide awareness campaign on promoting PCEs. This collaborative project was funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Essentials for Childhood: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Data to Action grant program.

Dr. Burstein was also a co-investigator on the Measuring the Impact of Violence against Children and Women during a Pandemic – Family Snapshot Survey project with the American Academy of Pediatrics and Prevent Child Abuse America and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Data Analysis project with the CDC. These projects resulted in three publications in 2024 on the prevalence of PCEs among adults (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report), corporal punishment during COVID-19 (Pediatric Reports), and childcare disruptions and parental stress during COVID-19 (Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics).

In 2022, Dr. Burstein was awarded a TUSM Innovations in Education Intramural Grant to create a custom Community Service Learning online course for first-year TUSM students. The course covers cultural humility, how to learn from the local community, anti-racism, and practicing medicine using PCEs and the HOPE framework.

Dr. Burstein holds a BS in Chemistry from Tufts University and MD and MPH degrees from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is a proud mother of three adult children and lives in Rhode Island with her two mischievous orange cats.

Other Positions

Associate Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine

Education and Training

Pediatric Internship
The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, New York City, NY

Pediatric Residency
Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT

MD
MPH
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

MA
BS
Tufts University, Medford, MA