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. Affiliated faculty members are actively involved in Center-funded scientific research and working papers, mentoring Science and Innovation Fellows, and informing on-the-ground science-based interventions.

Faculty Steering Committee

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Allan Brandt, Ph.D.

  • Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Professor of the History of Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  • Former Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Institutional Bio

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Takao Hensch, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science
  • Director, Conte Center for Basic Mental Health Research at Harvard University

Institutional Bio

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Charles A. Nelson III, Ph.D.

  • Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research, Boston Children’s Hospital Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School
  • Professor of Education, Harvard University
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Meredith L. Rowe, Ed.D.

  • Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Departmental Bio

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Elsie M. Taveras, M.D., M.P.H.

  • Chief, Division of General Academic Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Mass General Hospital for Children
  • Associate Professor of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Departmental Bio

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David Williams, Ph.D., M.P.H.

  • Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Departmental Bio

Affiliated Faculty

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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

Departmental Bio

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Myron Belfer, M.D., M.P.A.

  • Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
  • Senior Associate in Psychiatry, Boston Children’s Hospital

Departmental Bio

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Kira Bona, M.D., M.P.H.

  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
  • Attending Physician, Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center

Departmental Bio

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Michelle Bosquet Enlow, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Departmental Bio

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Arauz Boudreau, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP

  • Associate Chief of Pediatrics for Primary Care, Mass General Hospital
  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Departmental Bio

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Randy L. Buckner, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Harvard University
  • Director of Psychiatric Neuroimaging, Massachusetts General Hospital

Departmental Bio

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Erin C. Dunn, Sc.D., M.P.H.

  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
  • Assistant in Research, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital

Departmental Bio

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Michela Fagiolini, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital

Departmental Bio

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Wafaie Fawzi, Dr.P.H., M.B.B.S., M.P.H., M.S.

  • Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences and Professor of Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Departmental Bio

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Janina R. Galler, M.D.

  • Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
  • Senior Scientist, Judge Baker Children’s Center

Departmental Bio

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Bizu Gelaye, Ph.D., M.P.H

  • Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, MD Division of Global Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Teaching Faculty, Center for Bioethics, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Departmental Bio

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Paul Harris, Ph.D.

  • Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Departmental Bio

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Stephanie M. Jones, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Departmental Bio

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Ichiro Kawachi, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Professor of Social Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Departmental Bio

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Ronald Kessler, Ph.D.

  • McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

Departmental Bio

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Karestan Chase Koenen, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Departmental Bio

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Laura Kubzansky, Ph.D., M.P.H.

  • Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Departmental Bio

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Bernardo Lemos, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Environmental Epigenetics, Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Departmental Bio

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Paul Lerou, M.D.

  • Chief, Neonatology and Newborn Medicine, Mass General Hospital
  • Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Departmental Bio

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Nonie K. Lesaux, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Departmental Bio

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Dana Charles McCoy, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Departmental Bio

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Luke Miratrix, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Faculty Affiliate, Department of Statistics, Harvard University

Departmental Bio

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Matthew K. Nock, Ph.D.

  • Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  • Director, Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Research, Department of Psychology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Departmental Bio

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Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Associate Physician in Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Departmental Bio

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Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D.

  • Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital; Research Staff, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Founding Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

Full Bio

Photo of Jack P. Shonkoff by Fred Field

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Natalie Slopen, Sc.D.

  • Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Departmental Bio

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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

Departmental Bio

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Catherine Snow, Ph.D.

  • Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Departmental Bio

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Adriana Umaña-Taylor, Ph.D.

  • Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Departmental Bio

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John R. Weisz, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Departmental Bio

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Michelle A. Williams, Sc.D.

  • Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Departmental Bio

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Aisha K. Yousafzai, M.D.

  • Associate Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Visiting Faculty, Aga Khan University, Karachi

Departmental Bio

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