Global Children’s Initiative

Early Childhood development Goals- • Building a unified science of health, learning, and behavior to explain the early roots of lifelong Impairments. • Leading the design, implementation, and evaluation of innovative program and practice models that reduce preventable disparities in well-being. • Catalyzing the implementation of effective, science-based public policies through strategic relationships and knowledge transfer. • Preparing future and current leaders to build and leverage knowledge that promotes the healthy development of children and families and brings high returns to all of society. Priority The first priority is to adapt the successful work the Center has conducted in the United States for a broader range of strategically selected audiences, in an effort to energize and reframe the global dialogue around investments in the earliest years of life. To achieve this, they plan to educate the leadership of key international agencies, publish and disseminate papers to establish a strong scientific framework for global work, and conduct systematic communications research to identify the most effective ways to translate the science of child development for global policymakers. The second priority is to generate and apply new knowledge that addresses the health and developmental needs of young children in a variety of settings. Initial projects that are in various stages of planning, fundraising, and implementation. The Center also plans to convene research forums to facilitate collaboration among a wide network of scholars globally to share findings and co-develop publications.Building Broader, More Diverse Leadership Capacity in Research and Policy. It focuses on building a sustainable infrastructure to support the productive engagement of Harvard students and faculty in a diversity of global settings. The second dimension focuses on developing opportunities to provide leadership training for individual researchers, policymakers, and institutions, primarily in the majority world. The article is an eye opener to see what is being done in order to help the workforce and the society as a whole in a diversity of global settings.