Council Members
The Council’s interdisciplinary group of distinguished members includes leading researchers and scientists representing the fields of neurobiology, pharmacology, psychology, economics, social policy, and pediatric medicine. They are based at private and public research universities in the United States and Canada. In addition, the Council draws upon the work of distinguished contributing members in such fields as economics and communications research.
Jack Shonkoff, M.D., Chair
Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development
Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education
Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston
Director
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
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Pat Levitt, Ph.D., Science Director
Provost Professor of Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Pharmacy
Director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
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Silvia Bunge, Ph.D.
Director, Bunge Lab
Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychology
Associate Professor, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
University of California at Berkeley
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Judy L. Cameron, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics & Gynecology
Director of Outreach, School of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
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Greg J. Duncan, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Department of Education, University of California, Irvine
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Philip A. Fisher, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
Senior Scientist, Oregon Social Learning Center
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Nathan A. Fox, Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor
Director, Child Development Laboratory, University of Maryland College Park
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Megan R. Gunnar, Ph.D.
Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
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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, Children's Hospital Boston
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Fernando D. Martinez, M.D.
Regents' Professor
Director of the Arizona Respiratory Center
Director of the BIO5 Institute
Director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Swift-McNear Professor of Pediatrics
University of Arizona
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Linda C. Mayes, M.D.
Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, Yale Child Study Center
Special Advisor to the Dean, Yale School of Medicine
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Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D.
Alfred E. Mirsky Professor
Head, Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, The Rockefeller University
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Charles A. Nelson III, Ph.D.
Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research, Children's Hospital Boston
Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School
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Photo of Charles A. Nelson III by Fred Field
