One of the central tenets of the mission of the Center on the Developing Child is to build a multi-disciplinary science of child health, learning, and behavior that elucidates the early roots of lifelong disparities. Beyond simply adding incrementally to the existing science base in these areas, the Center is deeply committed to pushing the frontiers of knowledge by facilitating the investigation of bold, new ideas generated by a diversity of disciplinary perspectives.
Affiliated Faculty
In keeping with the Center’s university-wide mandate to draw upon the intellectual resources across the campus, faculty members from most of the University’s schools have been engaged to help build the Center’s agenda. More >>
Faculty Spotlights
This ongoing series of profiles features Center-affiliated
faculty members and researchers and their work.
- Faculty Spotlight: Günther Fink >>
- Faculty Spotlight: Charles A. Nelson III >>
- Faculty Spotlight: Matthew K. Nock >>
- Faculty Spotlight: Catherine Snow >>
- Faculty Spotlight: Hirokazu Yoshikawa >>
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Articles & Books
Read a selection of articles & books, including peer-reviewed journal articles, published by Center affiliated faculty members, Council members and Forum members, written primarily for a scientific audience/
Research Projects & Initiatives
Child Mental Health Network
The Child Mental Health Network was launched by the Center in September 2008 to address the gap between what we know and what we do related to child and adolescent mental health. This represented the first Center initiative focusing on the full span of childhood development until young adulthood. More >>
Impact of Early Adversity Studies
In the fall of 2008, the Center provided three years of seed funding to a team of Harvard researchers for a cluster of five integrated, multidisciplinary studies. The researchers were all members of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on Disparities (IRSD), a working group of the Center. The team conducted a parallel combination of mouse and human studies to elucidate the long-term effects of stress experienced early in life, with a particular focus on physical and mental health outcomes. More >>
Un Buen Comienzo
Un Buen Comienzo (UBC), "A Good Start," is a collaborative project in Santiago, Chile, to improve the quality of early childhood education through teacher professional development. UBC, which has received some funding from the Center on the Developing Child, is an example of the kind of integrated child development work that is central to the Center's mission. More >>
