Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D.
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Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development
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Director, Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., the founding Council Chair, is the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development and Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. Dr Shonkoff has received multiple professional honors, including elected membership to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, elected membership to the American Pediatric Society, designated National Associate of the National Academies, the C. Anderson Aldrich Award in Child Development from the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children from the Society for Research in Child Development.
Under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Shonkoff chaired the Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development for the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, which produced a landmark report entitled From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development. Dr. Shonkoff has served on numerous professional networks and public interest advisory boards, including the core scientific group of the MacArthur Research Network on Early Experience and Brain Development, the Governing Council of the Society for Research in Child Development, and the Executive Committee of the Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has authored more than 130 publications, including 9 books, and served on the editorial board of a number of scholarly journals, including Child Development and Infant Mental Health Journal.
Dr. Shonkoff has been a visiting professor and delivered named lectureships at 25 universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Israel, Australia, and China. Prior to assuming his current position, he was the Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and Dean of The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.
