Jack Shonkoff

Jack P. Shonkoff, MD, is the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education; Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital; Founding Director of the university-wide Center on the Developing Child; and current Director of Connecting Science + Community, an early childhood initiative at Harvard. He also chairs the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, whose mission is to bring credible science to bear on public policy affecting young children, and the JPB Research Network on Toxic Stress, which is developing new measures of stress effects and resilience in young children. He has received multiple honors, including elected membership to the National Academy of Medicine, the C. Anderson Aldrich Award in Child Development from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children from the Society for Research in Child Development, and The Lego Prize. He has authored more than 180 publications