Jack P.
Shonkoff, M.D., is the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child
Health and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health and the
Harvard Graduate School of Education; Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard
Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston; and Director of the
university-wide Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. He
also chairs the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, a
multi-university collaboration comprising leading scholars in neuroscience,
psychology, pediatrics, and economics, whose mission is to bring credible
science to bear on policy affecting young children.
Under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Shonkoff
served as Chair of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families and chaired a
blue-ribbon committee that produced the landmark report, From Neurons to
Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development. 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.
Dr. Shonkoff has received multiple 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.
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
150 publications, including nine books; co-edited two editions of the
widely-heralded Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention; and served
on the editorial board of several scholarly journals, including Child
Development.
Dr. Shonkoff completed his undergraduate studies at Cornell University,
medical education at New York University School of Medicine, pediatric
training at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center and the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, and fellowship in developmental pediatrics at Harvard Medical
School and Children's Hospital in Boston. He has been a visiting professor
or delivered named lectureships at more than 30 universities in the United
States, Australia, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, and Puerto
Rico. 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.