Room 8 - Dr. Jack P. Shonkoff

• In Event: Wednesday Morning Chat with Leaders

Abstract

Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard, Chair of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, whose mission is to bring credible science to bear on public policy affecting children and families, and Chair of the JPB Research Network on Toxic Stress, which is developing new measures of stress effects and resilience in young children. Current work focused on advancing our understanding, capacity to measure, and ability to reduce the disruptive effects of excessive adversity on the brain and other developing biological systems, as well as to enhance the protective influences that build resilience and strengthen the foundations of healthy development, with a particular focus on young children and families facing the burdens of poverty, systemic racism, and other forms of marginalization.

Author

• Jack P. Shonkoff, Harvard University
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