
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
Co-Investigators
Michael Georgieff, MD, Martin Lenz Harrison Land Grant Chair in Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics and Child Psychology, Director of the Division of Neonatology, Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, and Director of the Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota
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Debra Karhson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of New Orleans
Alicia Kunin-Batson, PhD, LP, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University
of Minnesota
Jennifer Mize Nelson, PhD, Director of Research Strategy and Infrastructure, Office of Research, and Associate Research Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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Timothy Nelson, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Sonya Troller-Renfree, PhD, Assistant Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
FORMEr Co-Investigators
Sarah Black, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of New Orleans
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​William Fifer, PhD, Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry and Pediatrics) and Associate Director of the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Columbia University Medical Center
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Joseph Isler, PhD, Associate Research Scientist in Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center
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Connie Lamm, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Arts & Sciences, University of Arkansas
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Dennis Molfese, PhD, Mildred Francis Thompson Professor in Social Sciences (retired), Chancellor’s Professor, and Director of the Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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Victoria Molfese, PhD, Professor Emerita, University of Nebraska, Lincoln​