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Expert Perspectives

Child Policy experts share their perspectives on the following topics:

Baby Videos and Television Child Abuse Prevention Child Care Quality Child Care Quality Policy Forum  (video)

Head Start Low Birth Weight Prevention Quality of Children's Health Care Policy Forum  (video) State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Policy Forum  (video)

Baby Videos and Television

Child Policy experts answer questions from PPN visitors about educational videos and television programming for children under two years old.

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Dr. Rebecca Collins Senior Behavioral Scientist RAND Corporation	Dr. Michael Rich Founder and Director Center on Media and Child Health  Children's Hospital Boston	Dr. Roberta Schomburg Professor of Education Carlow University, Pittsburgh

Child Abuse Prevention

On behalf of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Child Abuse Prevention Program, the RAND Corporation's Promising Practices Network asked six professionals knowledgeable about child abuse and neglect prevention to answer the following question: If you had $5 million to spend each year for the next five years to prevent child abuse and neglect in the United States, how would you spend it?

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Linda Baker Director, FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention	Mary Carrasco, MD Director International and Community Health, Pittsburgh Mercy Health System	Deborah Daro, PhD Research Fellow Chapin Hall Center for Children University of Chicago
J. Paige Greene Executive Director Richland County CASA South Carolina	Pete Hershberger Arizona State Representative Arizona House of Representatives	Elba Montalvo Executive Director The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc.

Child Care Quality

Child Policy experts answer questions from PPN visitors about the topic of child care quality and methods used to measure child care quality.

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Margaret Burchinal, PhD Senior Scientist FPG Child Development Institute University of North Carolina	Diane Early, PhD Research Associate Clinical and Social Psychology Department University of Rochester	Gail Zellman, PhD Senior Research Psychologist RAND Corporation

Child Care Quality Policy Forum:  Promising Practices Related to Child Care Quality

A panel of leading national experts discussed research evidence related to assessing the quality of child care. This policy forum was designed to help decision makers and funders understand the latest research related to child care quality and the implications for policymakers. This forum was hosted by the Promising Practices Network (PPN), RAND Corporation, and Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families (GCYF) in Santa Monica, California and via Webinar on December 9, 2009.

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Head Start

Child Policy experts answer questions from PPN visitors about the effectiveness of Head Start.

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Janet Currie, PhD Professor of Economics Columbia University	John Love, PhD Senior Fellow Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.	Jens Ludwig, PhD McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy University of Chicago

Low Birth Weight Prevention

Child Policy experts answer questions from PPN visitors about preventing low birth weight in infants.

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José Cordero, MD, MPH Dean Graduate School of Public Health University of Puerto Rico	Garth Graham, MD, MPH Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health Office of Minority Health Department of Health and Human Services	Carol Hogue, PhD, MPH Professor of Maternal and Child Health, Epidemiology Director, Women's and Children's Center Rollins School of Public Health Emory University

Quality of Health Care Policy Forum:  The Quality of Health Care for America's Children

Dr. Elizabeth McGlynn, Associate Director for RAND Health and an internationally recognized expert on assessing and reporting on quality of care, shares research findings and recommendations related to the quality of pediatric health care in the United States. This policy luncheon was hosted by the Promising Practices Network and the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California on December 4, 2007.

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SCHIP Policy Forum:  Effective State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Policy

Top experts from around the country share research and practice knowledge related to federal and state SCHIP policy. This forum was hosted by the Promising Practices Network and Kansas Action for Children in Kansas City, Missouri on June 5, 2007.

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