Faculty Spotlight:
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
The intersection of research, policy, and practice is where, most of the time, you’ll find developmental and community psychologist Hirokazu Yoshikawa. Learn more about Yoshikawa’s work, including building the nation’s most comprehensive database of early childhood program evaluation studies, as well as his work in China, Chile, and creating the family workforce development component of a multifaceted early childhood project in Tulsa, Okla. More >>
Faculty Spotlight:
Charles A. Nelson III
Charles A. Nelson studies the brain and behavioral development of young children, focusing in particular on those children for whom early development has somehow gone awry (or is at risk for going awry), either as a consequence of adversity early in life or because of biologically based injury. Learn more about his work studying the effects of institutionalization on Romanian orphans, as well as his role in a groundbreaking, linked set of studies researching the mechanisms for how early experience can change the biology of the brain and body for life. More >>
Faculty Spotlight:
Karestan C. Koenen
How does traumatic stress early in life get under the skin and affect lifelong health? Would it make a difference to a child’s long-term physical health if he or she were able to cope better psychologically with trauma? These are the kinds of questions that Karestan C. Koenen is asking in research funded by the Center. She hopes to find answers in what may seem to be an unlikely place: the DNA of children who have been in car accidents or fallen out of windows. More >>
Faculty Spotlight:
Matthew K. Nock
One of the most vexing problems in attempting to understand and treat suicide-prone adolescents is that one of the times they are most likely to succeed in taking their own lives is immediately after they’ve been discharged from the hospital. In other words, right after they’ve assured everyone they’re just fine. Learn more about Matthew K. Nock’s work to develop more effective ways to predict adolescent suicide—before it’s too late. More >>
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.
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Steering Committee
The Center is advised by a steering committee of nine members of the Harvard faculty whose school affiliations span the campus.
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Partners
The Center partners with a handful of organizations on collaborations that involve research and expertise in early childhood science, policy, and communications.
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Visiting Scholars and Senior Research Associates
Individuals who work actively on projects, international or domestic, that have an ongoing relationship with the Center or who come from partner organizations have been invited to join the Center as visiting scholars and senior research associates.
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