Jack Shonkoff MD
Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
Director
Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education
Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor
Chair, National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, Harvard University
Dr. Jack P. Shonkoff, is the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education; Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston; and Founding Director of the university-wide Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. He currently chairs the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, a multidisciplinary collaboration comprising leading scholars in neuroscience, psychology, pediatrics, and economics, whose mission is to bring credible science to bear on policy affecting young children.
Dr. Shonkoff has served as Chair of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families at the National Academy of Sciences and headed an Academy blue-ribbon committee that produced a landmark report entitled, From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development. He has been a visiting professor or delivered named lectureships at more than 30 universities in the United States and around the world, and has authored more than 150 publications, including 9 books. Dr. Shonkoff has received multiple professional honors, including elected membership to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the C. Anderson Aldrich Award in Child Development from the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Distinguished Contributions to Social Policy Award from the Society for Research in Child Development.
SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS
Early Brain & Biological Development 2011
Accelerating Innovation 2013
