PROJECT TEAM
The Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy at the Yale University School of Medicine has a long history of conducting timely research to address critical policy questions, utilizing communications channels and key policy and advocacy partners to advance data-informed decision making.
Project Leadership at Yale University include the following:
Elizabeth Mears & House Jameson Professor of Child Psychiatry & Psychology, Director of the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development & Social Policy, Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease), Yale School of Medicine; Associate Medical Director for Infection Prevention, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health; Associate Dean of Global Health Research, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale Institute for Global Health
Executive Director, Tobin Center for Economic Policy, Yale University; Former Commissioner of Early Childhood, State of Connecticut
Key partner organizations are Child Care Aware of America (with a reach to most all U.S. child care programs through the over 400 state and local child care resource and referral agencies in its network) and the National Workforce Registry Alliance (which coordinates child care workforce registries in 42 states, containing over 857,000 child care providers).
This work is generously supported by the Klingenstein Philanthropies, New York.