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Forum Members

 

shonkoff-council.jpgJack P. 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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phil-fisher-forum.jpgPhilip A. Fisher, Ph.D., Science Director

Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
Director, Stress Neurobiology and Prevention Research Laboratory, University of Oregon
Senior Scientist, Oregon Social Learning Center

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duncan.jpgGreg J. Duncan, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor
Department of Education, University of California, Irvine

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k_magnuson.jpgKatherine Magnuson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Social Work
University of Wisconsin, Madison

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yoshikawa-forum.jpgHirokazu Yoshikawa, Ph.D.

Walter H. Gale Professor of Education
Academic Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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Contributing Members


Susan Nall Bales

President, FrameWorks Institute

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Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D.

Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education
Teachers College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons
Co-Director, National Center for Children and Families
Co-Director, Institute for Child and Family Policy
Columbia University

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Bernard Guyer, M.D., M.P.H.
Zanvyl Kreiger Professor of Children’s Health, Emeritus
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Deborah Phillips, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology
Associated Faculty, Public Policy Institute
Co-Director, Center for Research on Children in the United States
Georgetown University

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About the Forum

The Forum was established in 2006. In the same way the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child seeks to explain why public investments should be made in the early childhood years, the Forum tries to describe what investments should be made—and how.
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Meta-analytic Database

Currently, a team of Forum members is building a comprehensive meta-analytic database on intervention services from the prenatal period to age five, including assessments of early care and education, family support and health-based programs. More >>

Forum Publications

The Forum’s publications discuss what program evaluation research can say about critical issues in child development, and what the implications are for policy and practice. More >>

 


Major support for the Forum has been provided by: the Birth to Five Policy Alliance, the Buffett Early Childhood Fund, Casey Family Programs, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the McCormick Tribune Foundation, the Norlien Foundation, and an Anonymous Donor.