The following entries represent recent highlights from the Center’s calendar.
2009
“A Better Start: Child Maltreatment Prevention as a Public Health Priority”
Online
This Web seminar was organized in September by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and featured a presentation by Center Director Jack P. Shonkoff, who described a science-based framework for understanding the importance of early childhood for lifelong health promotion and disease prevention. The archived seminar is available for viewing until Dec. 10, 2009. View>>
Global Early Childhood Development Research Meeting
Cambridge, Mass.
In July, to mark the launch of its global initiative, the Center on the Developing Child convened a group of 25 academics and scholars from every inhabited continent to solicit advice on setting the agenda for its initial entry into international research on early childhood development issues.
Full article on the meeting>>
Global Children’s Initiative>>
Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series
Cambridge, Mass.
In the 2008-09 academic year, the Center organized a second year of its lecture series, in partnership with schools across the University. The series, “Advancing the Science of Learning, Health and Behavior,” featured an April 2009 talk by Sir Michael Rutter of Kings College, London.
Harvard Graduate School of Education’s 13th Annual Student Research Conference
Cambridge, Mass.
In March, the Center hosted a paper presentation session that showcased the research of a HGSE doctoral student and a master’s candidate from New York University.
2008
National Symposium on Early Childhood Science & Policy
Cambridge, Mass.
This June 2008 symposium, convened by the Center’s State Policy Partnership, was designed to help state leaders, from both the executive and legislative branches, learn about early childhood development and its underlying neurobiology, as well was four decades of program evaluation and policy-related research.
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Colloquium Series
Boston and Cambridge, Mass.
In the 2007-08 academic year, the Center convened a six-part colloquium series, “The Science of Learning, Behavior, and Health: Closing the Gap Between What We Know and What We Do.” The events, which presented the science of child development, were held at six different University locations: Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Business School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School, and Harvard School of Public Health.
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