Selected Presentations

The CNA Center for Research on Military Children and Families has its origins in the “Workshop on the Scientific Study of Military Children” held in November 2011 to discuss the many challenges confronting children and families of U.S. military servicemen and women. Following are links to several of the presentations made during the two-day event.

Selected Presentations from the
Workshop on the Scientific Study of Military Children
Washington, DC, Nov. 17-18, 2011*

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• Workshop Overview: Challenge, Goals, Rationale, and Methods
  Sarah L. Friedman, PhD, Research Director, CNA Health Research and Policy 

• Foundations of Healthy Child Development
  Deborah Phillips, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Associated Faculty in the Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University

• Family and Children’s Functioning
  E. Mark Cummings, PhD, Professor and Notre Dame Endowed Chair in Psychology, University of Notre Dame
  
• Stress and Fetal Development
  Elysia Davis, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and the Department of Pediatrics, University of California at Irvine

• Stress and Child and Adolescent Development
  Emma K. Adam, PhD,  Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and a Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University

• Economic Stress on Families of Injured Warriors
  Eric Christensen, PhD, Managing Director, CNA Health Research and Policy 

• Psychological Stress on Military Families
  Daniel M. Harris, PhD, Associate Director, CNA Health Research and Policy  

• Deployment, Reunion, Injury, Death, and Military Children
  Stephen Cozza, MD, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University

• Positive Development of Military Youth
  Jon Zaff, PhD, Vice President of Research and Policy Development, America's Promise Alliance and Research Associate Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development and a senior fellow at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University

• Pregnancy Preparedness and Pre-Conception Interventions
  Sharon Landesman Ramey, PhD, Distinguished Research Scholar of Human Development, Virginia Tech

• Early Childhood Support Services
  Craig Ramey, PhD, Distinguished Research Scholar of Human Development, Virginia Tech

• Evidence of “What Works”
  Jon Baron, JD, President, Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy

• Military Educational Services for Children
  Jennie Wenger, PhD, Principal Research Scientist, CNA 

• Military Health Services for Children
  Marion Burton, MD, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Director of Community Pediatrics, University of South Carolina School of Medicine

• Utilization of Psychological Health Services by Military Families and Children
  Daniel M. Harris, PhD, Associate Director, CNA Health Research and Policy

• Talk, Listen, and Connect with Military Families
  Jeanette Betancourt, EdD, Senior Vice President for Outreach and Educational Practices, Sesame Workshop
• Leadership to Make it Happen: NICHD’s Support of Research About Military Children and Families
  Alan Guttmacher, MD, Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health

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