"Leveraging Developmental Science to Strengthen the Foundations of Lifelong Learning, Behavior and Health"

Social Research Unit 2011 Annual Lecture - Dr. Jack Shonkoff, Professor of Child Health and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health

When 5pm 

Where: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE

There have been several major breakthroughs in neuroscience in the last two decades. These are beginning to influence the formation of public policy, and the way in which children's services engage with children. Much of the data emphasises the importance of the early years. But science is revealing the importance of subsequent sensitive periods in brain development, in the primary school years, in adolescence and early adulthood that all promise new ways of promoting health and development of children. Professor Jack Shonkoff is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts in neuroscience and its application to policy and practice.

Jack P. Shonkoff, MD, is the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education, and founding director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. He also chairs the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, a multi-university collaboration comprising leading scholars in neuroscience, developmental psychology, pediatrics, and economics, whose mission is to bring sound and accurate science to bear on public decision making affecting the lives of young children.

The lecture will be preceded by a reception. Further details will be sent to you about a week before the lecture.