Confirmed speakers for the Congress to date include:

Larry Aber, Ph.D.

National Center for Children in Poverty

Columbia University

Joel Alpert, MD

President, American Academy of Pediatrics

Former Chair of Pediatrics

Boston University School of Medicine

Tamar Bauer, JD

Consultant, The New York Forum for Child Health

The New York Academy of Medicine

Abe Bergman, MD

Professor, Department of Pediatrics

University of Washington

Harborview Medical Center

W. Thomas Boyce, MD

Professor of Epidemiology and Child Development

University of California at Berkeley

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D.

Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor

of Child and Parent Development and Education

Columbia University

Peter Budetti, MD, JD

Director, Institute for Health Services Research

and Policy Studies, Northwestern University

Linda Burton,Ph.D.

Professor of Human Development and Sociology

Department of Sociology, Penn State University

Bettye Caldwell, Ph.D.

Professor of Pediatrics

Infant Health and Development Division

University of Arkansas College of Medicine

Dante Cicchetti, Ph.D.

Professor, Clinical and Social Psychology

University of Rochester

James Connell, Ph.D..

President, Institute of Research and Reform in Medicine

Leon Eisenberg, MD

Professor of Social Medicine

Harvard University Medical School

David Ellwood, Ph.D.

Professor, The John F. Kennedy School of Government

Harvard University

William H. Foege, MD, MPH

Distinguished Professor

Rollins School of Public Health

Department of International Health, Emory University

Bernard Guyer, MD, MPH

Chair, Department of Maternal and Child Health

Johns Hopkins University

Robert J. Haggerty,MD, MPH

Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Pediatrics

University of Rochester

School of Medicine and Dentistry

Karen Hein, MD

President, The W. T. Grant Foundation

Margorie Hogan, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

University of Minnesota

Woodie Kessel, MD

Office of the Surgeon General of the United States

Philip Landrigan, MD

Chair, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine

Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

Elizabeth McAnarney, MD

Professor and Chair of Pediatrics

University of Rochester

School of Medicine and Dentistry

Julius Richmond, MD

John D. MacArthur Professor Emeritus of Health Policy

Harvard Medical School

Former Surgeon General of the United States

Sara Rosenbaum, JD

Director, Center for Health Policy

George Washington University

Jack Schonkoff, MD

Dean, The Heller School, Brandeis University

The Honorable Louise M. Slaughter

Member of Congress

Michael Weitzman, MD

Professor and Associate Chair of Pediatrics

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Chief of Pediatrics, Rochester General Hospital

Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D.

Senior Research Fellow

The Trafford Centre for Medical Research

University of Sussex, Great Britain

Edward Zigler, Ph.D.

Sterling Professor of Psychology

Yale University

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