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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is seeking suggestions for experts to participate in the new study on early relational health. The study will examine evidence from family engagement and place-based community initiatives to identify effective strategies for strengthening early relational health, with attention to how social and economic conditions of daily life shape child and family well-being. It will assess practices and implementation strategies that support cross-sector early childhood systems change, including scale-up and sustainability, and identify federal and state policies, programs, and research priorities needed to advance and sustain early relational health.
Statement of Task
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene an ad hoc committee of experts to conduct a consensus study on early relational health (ERH). The committee will make recommendations on future directions for research, policy, and practices and recommend strategies and actions to translate basic and applied research findings to advance ERH across health care, childcare, education, and other community settings. In conducting its work, the committee will examine clinical, program, and research trends related to this paradigm shift that focus on ERH for infant, child, and family wellbeing.
The committee will address the following questions:
1. What evidence from family engagement and place-based community initiatives can guide effective strategies to strengthen early relational health? How can these initiatives incorporate the causal impacts of the conditions of daily life—including social and economic factors such as housing, food security, employment, education, and community environment—on child and family health and well-being?
2. What practices and implementation strategies best promote early relational health and community resilience through cross-sector early childhood systems change, including approaches that support effective scale-up and sustainability?
3. Which federal and state policies, programs, and research priorities are needed to advance and sustain early relational health?
The ad hoc committee will be appointed according to National Academies’ procedures to ensure balance, objectivity, and independence.
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Committee Membership Roster Comments
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Udara Perera
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Madeleine Deye
Joshua Lang
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Center for Health, People, and Places
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Social and Economic Systems Program Area
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