Team

Dana Charles McCoy
Marie and Max Kargman Associate Professor in Human Development and Urban Education Advancement
Faculty Co-Chair, Human Development and Education Program
Dana Charles McCoy is faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Her work focuses on understanding the ways that poverty-related risk factors in children’s home, school, and neighborhood environments affect the development of their...
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Günther Fink
Associate Professor at the Swiss TPH in Basel
Adjunct Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Günther Fink is associate professor at the Swiss TPH in Basel as well as adjunct professor in the department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Fink’s work focuses on developing and evaluating new and...
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Marcus Waldman
Former Doctoral Student, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Marcus Waldman earned his doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in May 2020 and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center. His research interests involve the development and...
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Jonathan Seiden
Doctoral Student, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Jonathan Seiden is a doctoral student in Education Policy and Program Evaluation working with Dana McCoy and Luke Miratrix. His research interests include the quantitative measurement of early childhood development and how assessments are used to inform...
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Kenji Kitamura
Doctoral Student, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Kenji is a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). His work focuses on early childhood development (ECD) measurement and intervention issues from an international perspective. He is particularly interested in children's...
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Mikayla My Do
Doctoral Student, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Mikayla My Do is a Ph.D. student at Harvard Graduate School of Education, specializing in the field of adolescent development. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Human Development from the University of California San Diego and a Master of...
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Heather Do
Doctoral Student, University of Pennsylvania
Heather Do is a master's student in the Human Development and Education program at HGSE. She serves as a research assistant at the Settings for Early Education and Development Lab (SEED Lab) and her work at the lab primarily focuses on the development of...
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CREDI Advisory Panel Members

  • Frances Aboud, McGill University
  • Amina Ali, Lancaster University
  • Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania
  • Maureen Black, University of Maryland
  • Kim Boller, Mathematica Policy Research
  • David Bravo, Universidad de Chile
  • Pia Britto, UNICEF
  • Claudia Cappa, UNICEF
  • Amanda Devercelli, World Bank
  • Tarun Dua, WHO
  • Melissa Gladstone, University of Liverpool
  • Jena Hamadani, ICDDBR
  • Magdalena Janus, McMaster University
  • Pamela Jervis, Universidad de Chile
  • Patricia Kariger, University of California, Berkeley
  • Joan Lombardi, Bernard van Leer Foundation
  • Sally Grantham-McGregor, University of the West Indies
  • Jeff Measelle, University of Oregon
  • Lauren Pisani, Save the Children
  • Beth Prado, University of California, Davis
  • Abbie Raikes, UNESCO
  • Nirmala Rao, Hong Kong University
  • Jack Shonkoff, Harvard Center on the Developing Child
  • Fahmida Tofail, ICDDBR
  • Aimee Verdisco, Inter-American Development Bank
  • Susan Walker, University of the West Indies
  • Hiro Yoshikawa, New York University
  • Aisha Yousafzai, Aga Khan University
  • Stephanie Zuilkowski, Florida State University

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