Jack P. Shonkoff is an American pediatrician, currently the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development at

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and

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as well as Professor of Pediatrics at

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and

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. He is a member of the research staff at

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and serves as Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. He currently chairs the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, and the JPB Research Network on

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. He was formerly the Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and Dean of the

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. Under the auspices of the

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, he served as chair of the board on Children, Youth, and Families from 1997 to 2000 and led a blue-ribbon committee that produced a report in 2000 entitled, ''From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development.'' He also served as a member of the Panel on Child Care Policy, the Committee on the Assessment of Family Violence Interventions, and the Roundtable on Head Start Research. Shonkoff has received multiple honors, including elected membership to the

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(now the

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) of the

, the C. Anderson Aldrich Award in Child Development from the

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, the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children from the

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, and the 2019

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Prize.

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