Baby's First Years
The first study in the United States to assess the impact of poverty reduction on family life and infant and toddlers’ cognitive, emotional, and brain development
Scientific Advisory Board
Orazio Attanasio, PhD, Professor of Economics, Yale University
Flavio Cunha, PhD, Professor of Economics, Rice University
Kathryn Edin, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Philip Fisher, PhD, Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
Brenda Jones Harden, PhD, Ruth Harris Ottman, Class of '45, Professor of Child and Family Welfare, Columbia School of Social Work
Stephanie Jones, PhD, Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development, Harvard
University
Krista Perreira, PhD, Professor of Social Medicine, UNC School of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill
Isaac Petersen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa
Dawn Witherspoon, PhD, McCourtney Family Early Career Professor in Psychology; Associate
Professor, Penn State College of Liberal Arts
Charles Zeanah, PhD, Sellars-Polchow Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Vice-Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Executive Director of the Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Tulane University
Former advisors
Tom Boyce, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
Bridget Goosby, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Faculty Affiliate Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
Michael López, PhD, Vice President in the Education and Child Development department at NORC, University of Chicago
Bruce McEwen, PhD, Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and Director of Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Rockefeller University
Eldar Shafir, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, PhD, Professor of Applied Psychology, New York University