Jane’s project focuses on developing a framework to understand the factors that promote mental well-being in early childhood in Cambridge, with the ultimate goal of identifying strategies to reduce the mental and physical health disparities that emerge during this developmental stage.
Jane is an MPH-65 student in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, with an interdisciplinary concentration in Maternal and Child Health. Her research interests include the social, behavioral, and environmental determinants of children’s mental health; the design and implementation of population-level interventions to promote mental health, particularly in early childhood; the use of health communications and social marketing to reduce health disparities; and the development of population health indicators.