Jack Shonkoff
Jack P. Shonkoff | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pediatrics, Stress |
| Institutions | Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brandeis University. |
Jack P. Shonkoff is an American pediatrician,[1] currently the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education as well as Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital. He is a member of the research staff at Massachusetts General Hospital and serves as Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. He currently chairs the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, and the JPB Research Network on Toxic Stress.[2]
He was formerly 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.[3][4]
Under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, he served as chair of the board on Children, Youth, and Families from 1997 to 2000 and led a blue-ribbon committee that produced a report in 2000[5] entitled, From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development.[6] He also served as a member of the Panel on Child Care Policy, the Committee on the Assessment of Family Violence Interventions, and the Roundtable on Head Start Research.[7]
Shonkoff has received multiple honors, including elected membership to the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) of the National Academy of Sciences, the C. Anderson Aldrich Award in Child Development[8] from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children[9] from the Society for Research in Child Development, and the 2019 LEGO Prize.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ Keener, Amanda B. (25 January 2021). "Unseen scars of childhood trauma". Knowable Magazine. doi:10.1146/knowable-012521-1. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
- ^ "Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D. - Center Director". Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ "Jack P. Shonkoff". Jack P. Shonkoff. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ^ "Jack Shonkoff". harvard.edu. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
- ^ "From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development". www8.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ^ "Past Reports". sites.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ^ Shonkoff, Jack P.; Phillips, Deborah A.; Development, National Research Council (US) and Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood (2000). Biographical Sketches. National Academies Press (US).
- ^ Shonkoff, Jack P. (2006–2011). "A promising opportunity for developmental and behavioral pediatrics at the interface of neuroscience, psychology, and social policy: remarks on receiving the 2005 C. Anderson Aldrich Award". Pediatrics. 118 (5): 2187–2191. doi:10.1542/peds.2006-1728. ISSN 1098-4275. PMID 17079593. S2CID 40674502.
- ^ "SRCD Senior Distinguished Contributions Awards History". Society for Research in Child Development. Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ^ "The LEGO Foundation Annual LEGO Idea Conference Unlocks "Power of Parenting", Convenes Top Experts in Child Development and Learning from Around the World". The LEGO Foundation. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
External links
[edit]- Why reducing a pregnant woman's toxic stress can improve the health of her unborn child on YouTube December 17, 2019 PBS NewsHour
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