
Dr. Florence Bourgeois is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. At Harvard Medical School, she is the Director of the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science where she leads interdisciplinary projects focused on pharmaceutical development pipelines, prescription drug utilization, FDA regulatory policies and incentive programs, and postmarketing safety surveillance of regulated products. She directs a Fellowship Program that trains scientists from diverse backgrounds in regulatory science.
At Boston Children’s Hospital, Dr. Bourgeois is the Director of the Pediatric Therapeutics and Regulatory Science Initiative, which focuses on pediatric-specific drug policy and regulation, and methods to advance evidence-based use of therapeutics in children. She has served as an Expert Visitor at the European Medicines Agency, evaluating the implementation of the EU’s Pediatric Regulation and its impact on increasing pediatric drug research and product labeling.
As faculty member in the Computational Health Informatics Program, Dr. Bourgeois is the Scientific Director of the Boston Children’s Hospital PrecisionLink Biobank. In this role, she collaborates on developing novel approaches and informatics-based tools to integrate clinical data with biospecimen metadata and develop scalable infrastructures to expand capacity for biomedical research in pediatric patient populations, especially those with rare diseases. Her clinical training is in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine, and her research has been funded by the NIH, AHRQ, FDA, and various foundations.
Dr. Bourgeois is a graduate of Yale University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She completed her residency training in pediatrics and fellowship training in pediatric emergency medicine, both at Boston Children’s Hospital. She was a NRSA research fellow and obtained a Master in Public Health in clinical effectiveness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.