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The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (NSCDC) is a multi-disciplinary collaboration comprising leading scholars in neuroscience, early childhood development, pediatrics, and economics. Created to seize the opportunity that arose from response to the landmark report from the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development, the Council works to build strong, informed, photo of book cover bipartisan leadership in both the public and private sectors to close the gap between what we know and what we do to promote successful learning, adaptive behavior, and sound physical and mental health for all young children.

Through a marriage of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary scientific knowledge on early child development to highly sophisticated communication research methods designed to ensure accurate public understanding of that science, the NSCDC is promoting a new national dialogue focused on rethinking the meaning of both shared responsibility for children and strategic investment in their future. The Council is housed at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

Bringing sound and accurate science to bear on public decision making affecting the lives of young children



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