Neighborhood Opportunity and Mortality Among Children and Adults in Their Households.
Slopen N, Cosgrove C, Acevedo-Garcia D, Hatzenbuehler ML, Shonkoff JP, Noelke C.
Pediatrics. 2023 04 01. 151(4). PMID: 36946099
Primary Faculty
Jack P. Shonkoff
Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Other Positions
Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education
Faculty
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics-Boston Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Links
Bibliography
Linking specific biological signatures to different childhood adversities: findings from the HERO project.
de Mendonça Filho EJ, Pokhvisneva I, Maalouf CM, Parent C, Mliner SB, Slopen N, Williams DR, Bush NR, Boyce WT, Levitt P, Nelson CA, Gunnar MR, Meaney MJ, Shonkoff JP, Silveira PP.
Pediatr Res. 2023 08. 94(2):564-574. PMID: 36650307
Translating the Biology of Adversity and Resilience Into New Measures for Pediatric Practice.
Shonkoff JP, Boyce WT, Bush NR, Gunnar MR, Hensch TK, Levitt P, Meaney MJ, Nelson CA, Slopen N, Williams DR, Silveira PP.
Pediatrics. 2022 06 01. 149(6). PMID: 35535547
Raising the Bar for Evaluating Effectiveness of Early Childhood Interventions.
Shonkoff JP, McCoy DC.
Pediatrics. 2021 10. 148(4). PMID: 34544848
Genes, Environments, and Time: The Biology of Adversity and Resilience.
Boyce WT, Levitt P, Martinez FD, McEwen BS, Shonkoff JP.
Pediatrics. 2021 02. 147(2). PMID: 33495368
Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Impacts of Racism on the Foundations of Health.
Shonkoff JP, Slopen N, Williams DR.
Annu Rev Public Health. 2021 04 01. 42:115-134. PMID: 33497247
Leveraging the Biology of Adversity and Resilience to Transform Pediatric Practice.
Shonkoff JP, Boyce WT, Levitt P, Martinez FD, McEwen B.
Pediatrics. 2021 02. 147(2). PMID: 33495367
Impacts of Early Childhood Education on Medium- and Long-Term Educational Outcomes.
McCoy DC, Yoshikawa H, Ziol-Guest KM, Duncan GJ, Schindler HS, Magnuson K, Yang R, Koepp A, Shonkoff JP.
Educ Res. 2017 Nov. 46(8):474-487. PMID: 30147124
Rethinking the Definition of Evidence-Based Interventions to Promote Early Childhood Development.
Shonkoff JP.
Pediatrics. 2017 12. 140(6). PMID: 29138361
From Innovation to Impact at Scale: Lessons Learned From a Cluster of Research-Community Partnerships.
Schindler HS, Fisher PA, Shonkoff JP.
Child Dev. 2017 09. 88(5):1435-1446. PMID: 28777436
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