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45
Citations
30941
World Ranking
3709
National Ranking
1772

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Jack P. Shonkoff is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States, focusing on research in social sciences and health professions. Their work spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, general health professions, clinical psychology, and education.

The main topics covered in Shonkoff's research involve child and adolescent health, early childhood education and development, racial and ethnic identity research, migration, health and trauma, birth, development, and health, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, and ethics and legal issues in pediatric healthcare.

Shonkoff has published extensively in a range of academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • PEDIATRICS
  • Annual Review of Public Health
  • Child Development Perspectives
  • Pediatric Research
  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Impacts of Racism on the Foundations of Health," 2021, Annual Review of Public Health
  • "Genes, Environments, and Time: The Biology of Adversity and Resilience," 2021, PEDIATRICS
  • "Leveraging the Biology of Adversity and Resilience to Transform Pediatric Practice," 2021, PEDIATRICS
  • "Translating the Biology of Adversity and Resilience Into New Measures for Pediatric Practice," 2022, PEDIATRICS
  • "Neighborhood Opportunity and Mortality Among Children and Adults in Their Households," 2023, PEDIATRICS

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Shonkoff are:

  • Natalie Slopen
  • W. Thomas Boyce
  • Pat Levitt
  • David R. Williams
  • Fernando D. Martínez

Shonkoff's research contributes to understanding the biological and social determinants impacting childhood development and health outcomes. This includes investigations into adversity, resilience, and the role of racism and social environments on health from early life onwards.

Among professional recognitions, Shonkoff was made a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 1999.

Best Publications

  • From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development

    Jack P. Shonkoff;Deborah A. Phillips

  • The Lifelong Effects of Early Childhood Adversity and Toxic Stress

    Jack P. Shonkoff;Andrew S. Garner

  • Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and the Childhood Roots of Health Disparities: Building a New Framework for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

    Jack P. Shonkoff;W. Thomas Boyce;Bruce S. McEwen

  • A New Definition of Children With Special Health Care Needs

    Merle McPherson;Polly Arango;Harriette Fox;Cassie Lauver

  • Economic, neurobiological, and behavioral perspectives on building America's future workforce.

    Eric I. Knudsen;James Joseph Heckman;Judy L. Cameron;Jack P. Shonkoff

  • Early childhood adversity, toxic stress, and the role of the pediatrician: translating developmental science into lifelong health.

    Dependent Care;Section on Developmental

  • Building a new biodevelopmental framework to guide the future of early childhood policy.

    Jack P. Shonkoff

  • An Epidemiologic Profile of Children With Special Health Care Needs

    Paul W. Newacheck;Bonnie Strickland;Jack P. Shonkoff;James M. Perrin

  • Children with Disabilities: A Longitudinal Study of Child Development and Parent Well-Being.

    Penny Hauser-Cram;Marji Erickson Warfield;Jack P. Shonkoff;Marty Wyngaarden Krauss

  • An Integrated Scientific Framework for Child Survival and Early Childhood Development

    Jack P. Shonkoff;Linda Richter;Jacques van der Gaag;Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta

  • Rethinking evidence-based practice and two-generation programs to create the future of early childhood policy.

    Jack P. Shonkoff;Philip A. Fisher

  • Racial Disparities in Child Adversity in the U.S. Interactions With Family Immigration History and Income

    Natalie Slopen;Jack P. Shonkoff;Michelle A. Albert;Hirokazu Yoshikawa

  • Early intervention for disabled infants and their families: a quantitative analysis.

    Jack P. Shonkoff;Penny Hauser-Cram

  • Leveraging the biology of adversity to address the roots of disparities in health and development

    Jack P. Shonkoff

  • Development of infants with disabilities and their families: implications for theory and service delivery.

    J P Shonkoff;P Hauser-Cram;M W Krauss;C C Upshur

  • Protecting brains, not simply stimulating minds.

    Jack P. Shonkoff

  • Science Does Not Speak for Itself: Translating Child Development Research for the Public and Its Policymakers

    Jack P. Shonkoff;Susan Nall Bales

  • Impacts of Early Childhood Education on Medium- and Long-Term Educational Outcomes.

    Dana Charles McCoy;Hirokazu Yoshikawa;Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest;Greg J. Duncan

  • Science, Policy, and Practice: Three Cultures in Search of a Shared Mission

    Jack P. Shonkoff

  • Capitalizing on Advances in Science to Reduce the Health Consequences of Early Childhood Adversity

    Jack P. Shonkoff

  • Childhood, Adoption, and Dependent Care, and Section on Developmental and Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health, Committee on Early Translating Developmental Science Into Lifelong Health Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Role of the Pediatrician:

    David L. Wood;I. Dobbins;Marian F. Earls;Andrew S. Garner

  • Early Intervention for Disabled Infants and Their Families—a Quantitative Analysis of Program Impacts

    J. P. Shonkoff;P. Hauser-cram;M. Krauss;C. Upshur

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah A. Phillips
Deborah A. Phillips Georgetown University
Marty Wyngaarden Krauss
Marty Wyngaarden Krauss Brandeis University
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Hirokazu Yoshikawa New York University
Greg J. Duncan
Greg J. Duncan University of California, Irvine
Pat Levitt
Pat Levitt University of Southern California
W. Thomas Boyce
W. Thomas Boyce University of California, San Francisco
Philip A. Fisher
Philip A. Fisher Stanford University
Eric I. Knudsen
Eric I. Knudsen Stanford University
Linda Richter
Linda Richter University of the Witwatersrand
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Columbia University

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