Teachers College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University National Center for Children and Families
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JEANNE BROOKS-GUNN is the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education at Teachers College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, and she directs the National Center for Children and Families (www.policyforchildren.org). She is interested in factors that contribute to both positive and negative outcomes across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, with a particular focus on key social and biological transitions over the life course. She designs and evaluates intervention programs for children and parents (Early Head Start, Infant Health and Development Program, Head Start Quality Program). Other large-scale longitudinal studies include the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study and the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (co-PI of both). She is the author of four books and more than 350 publications.

Teresa Eckrich Sommer, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Margo Gardner, Diana Mendley Rauner & Karen Freel - 2012
Jodie Roth, Miriam Linver, Sandra Hofferth & Jeanne Brooks-Gunn - 2003
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Jill Denner & Pam Klebanov - 1995