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

Institutional Bio

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Meredith L. Rowe, Ed.D.

  • Saul Zaentz Professor of Early Learning and Development

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
  • Conrad Taff Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
  • Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Associate Professor of Population Medicine, Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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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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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Alexy 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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Kathleen Conroy, M.D., M.S.

  • Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Associate Clinical Director, Boston Children’s Primary Care
  • Medical Director, Young Parents Program, Boston Children’s Hospital

Institutional link

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

Senior Fellow

Dr. Erin C. Dunn is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist with expertise in genetics and epigenetics. Her research laboratory uses interdisciplinary approaches to better understand the social and biological factors that influence the etiology of depression among women, children, and adolescents.

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Michela Fagiolini, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital

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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Nathaniel G. Harnett, Ph.D.

  • Director of the Neurobiology of Affective and Traumatic Experiences Laboratory at McLean Hospital
  • Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Institutional 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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Karestan 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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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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Kari C. Nadeau, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health and John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine and the U.S. EPA Children’s Health Protection Committee

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

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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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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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