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Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child and Parent Development and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Co-director of the National Center for Children & Families. She holds affiliations with the departments of Human Development and Developmental Psychology. Brooks-Gunn earned a B.A. from Connecticut College, M.Ed. from Harvard University, and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Her research focuses on child and family policy, early childhood interventions, adolescent development, neighborhood poverty effects, and gender studies. She leads large-scale longitudinal studies like the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study, Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, and Early Head Start evaluation. Her work emphasizes translating research into policy, particularly in early education and two-generation programs.
Publications include over 700 peer-reviewed articles and books such as Adolescent Mothers in Later Life and First-Year Maternal Employment and Child Development. She collaborates on initiatives like the Head Start program evaluation and the Early Advantage global ECEC study.
- Education:
- B.A., Connecticut College
- M.Ed., Harvard University
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
- Key Projects:
- Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study
- Early Head Start Evaluation
- National Center for Children & Families initiatives
- Grants & Advising:
- Lead researcher on NIH-funded longitudinal studies
- Advisor to policy bodies on early childhood education and poverty
- Labs/Teams: National Center for Children & Families (NCCF), a multidisciplinary team advancing child policy and development research.
