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Felton Earls is a Professor of Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Human Behavior and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is currently Principal Investigator of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, funded primarily by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, and the National Institute of Mental Health. This large-scale study is providing a detailed understanding of how multiple influences of social class, race/ethnicity, neighborhoods, schools and families determine children’s vulnerability to school underachievement, delinquency, substance abuse and violent behavior.

After attending both undergraduate and medical schools at Howard University in Washington, D.C., Dr. Earls completed postgraduate training in neurophysiology at the University of Wisconsin. He trained in psychiatry and child psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Children’s Hospital in Boston. Prior to taking his current position, he was Blanche F. Ittleson Professor of Child Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Child Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

He is the recipient of several awards, including the Distinguished Psychiatrist Award and the Blanche F. Ittleson Award from the American Psychiatric Association, the Dale Richmond Award from the Academy of Pediatrics and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Northwestern University. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Art and Sciences and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He serves on the Board of Directors of Physicians for Human Rights and is a member of the Committee on Human Rights at the National Academy of Sciences.