
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.
Biographical information for the Center's affiliated faculty is listed below.
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Nava Ashraf, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School
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William Beardslee, M.D.
- Director, Preventive Intervention Project, Judge Baker Children's Center
- Chairman Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital
- Gardner/Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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Myron Belfer, M.D., M.P.A.
- Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
- Senior Associate in Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital Boston
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Theresa Betancourt, M.A., Sc.D.
- Associate Professor of Child Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
- Director, Research Program on Children and Global Adversity, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
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Michela Fagiolini, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital
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Günther Fink, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of International Health Economics, Department of Global Health and Economics, Harvard School of Public Health
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Richard Frank, Ph.D.
- Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Kennedy School
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Matt Gillman, M.D., S.M.
- Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention and Director of the Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
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Paul Harris, Ph.D.
- Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Takao Hensch, Ph.D.
- Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Senior Research Associate in Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital
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Charles Homer, M.D., M.P.H.
- President and CEO, National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality
- Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
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Stephanie M. Jones, Ph.D.
- Max and Marie Kargman Associate Professor in Human Development and Urban Education Advancement, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Ichiro Kawachi, M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor of Social Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
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Ronald Kessler, Ph.D.
- Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
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Laura Kubzansky, Ph.D., M.P.H.
- Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health
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Nonie K. Lesaux, Ph.D.
- Marie and Max Kargman Associate Professor in Human Development and Urban Education Advancement, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Katie McLaughlin, Ph.D.
- Director, Stress & Development Laboratory, Boston Children's Hospital
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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Mark H. Moore, Ph.D.
- Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School
- Herbert A. Simon Professor in Education, Management, and Organizational Behavior, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Faculty Chair, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
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Charles A. Nelson III, Ph.D.
- Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research, Boston Children's Hospital
- Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School
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Matthew K. Nock, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Margaret Sheridan, Ph.D.
- Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
- Research Associate, Department of Developmental Medicine, Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience, Boston Children's Hospital
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Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D.
- Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development at Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital
- Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
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Jordan W. Smoller, M.D., Sc.D.
- Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
- Director of Psychiatric Genetics and Associate Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Catherine Snow, Ph.D.
- Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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John R. Weisz, Ph.D.
- Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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David Williams, Ph.D., M.P.H.
- Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health
- Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Michelle A. Williams, Sc.D.
- Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
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Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Ph.D.
- Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Academic Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Photos of Takao Hensch and Charles A. Nelson III
by Fred Field
