The event will mark the Launch of the Brazilian Center for Early Child Development, whose mission is to promote healthy development in early childhood through scientific research to assist in the formulation of public policies based on evidence. In addition to the institutional speeches of the supporting organizations, there will be a thematic panel with four professors on “Brazilian challenges and global perspectives for Child Development”.
To launch the Brazilian Center for Early Child Development, we gather Aisha Yousafzai, Associate Professor of Global Health at the Global Health and Population Department of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Dana Charles McCoy, Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Flávio Cunha, Economics Professor at Rice University, and Naercio Menezes Filho, Coordinator at the Scientific Committee of the Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância (NCPI) and Director of CPAPI. Claudio Haddad, chairman of the board of Insper, Jack Shonkoff, Director of Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child, Luiz Eugênio Mello, Scientific Director of FAPESP, Marcos Lisboa, Insper’s President, Mariana Luz, CEO of Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal, Roberta Ricardes Pires, responsible for the Technical Area of Child Health at the São Paulo State Department of Health (SES/SP), and Sylvio Canuto, Pro-Dean for Research at the University of São Paulo (USP) will present the institutional opening, and Marcia Castro, Professor at Harvard University School of Public Health, will mediate the discussion.
Insper Webinars – Insper believes that quality information based on evidence is essential to decision- making and to face the challenges posed by the surge of the new coronavirus. In this sense, the school has been promoting a series of online events, for free, to disseminate relevant content. They cover topics such as economic overview, labor aspects, legal tools applicable, challenges for the startups, leadership and management of remote teams, management of the working capital in times of crisis, impacts on supply chains, and coronavirus’ impacts on family businesses.
This webinar will be held in English, without simultaneous translation.
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Date: 3/02/2021
Time: 10h00
Naercio Menezes Filho: Coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância (NCPI) and Director of CPAPI.
Marcos Lisboa: Insper President
Luiz Eugênio Mello: Scientific Director of FAPESP
Jack Shonkoff: Director of Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child
Mariana Luz: CEO of Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal
Claudio Haddad: Chairman of the board of Insper
Sylvio Canuto: Pro-Dean for Research at the University of São Paulo (USP)
Roberta Ricardes Pires: Responsible for the Technical Area of Child Health at the São Paulo State Department of Health (SES/SP)
Marcia Castro: Professor at Harvard University School of Public Health
Aisha Yousafzai: Associate Professor of Global Health at the Global Health and Population Department of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dana Charles McCoy: Associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Flávio Cunha: Economics professor at Rice University
Naercio Menezes Filho: Coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância (NCPI) and Director of CPAPI.
Associate Professor of Global Health at the Global Health and Population Department of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has written extensively about early childhood interventions in low and middle-income countries including articles in Annals of the New York Academy of Science, Annual Review of Psychology, Lancet, Lancet Global Health, and Pediatrics.
Is chairman of the board of Insper, a not-for-profit business and economics school in Brazil, and chairman of the board of Grupo IBMEC S.A., a for-profit organization that operates the schools Faculdades Ibmec in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Brasília. He is also a member of the board of directors of BM&FBovespa, Ideal Invest, Instituto Unibanco and Albert Einstein Hospital. He is chairman of the advisory board of the Brazil Office of Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. From 1983 to 1998, he was partner and chief executive officer of Banco de Investimentos Garantia, a Brazilian investment bank.
Associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her work focuses on understanding the ways that poverty-related risk factors in children's home, school, and neighborhood environments affect the development of their cognitive and socioemotional skills in early childhood.
Professor of Economics at Rice University, a Research Associate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Research Associate at Rede de Economia Aplicada. He received his MSc in Economics from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro and his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.
M.D., is the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital; and Director of the university-wide Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.
Graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of São Paulo, has a Master’s degree and a PhD in molecular biology from the same university. He attended the University of California as a Postdoctoral Fellow in neurophysiology. He has been a full member of the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and was awarded the Grã-cruz da Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico.
Andelot Professor of Demography; and chair of the of the Global Health and Population Department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a founding member of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital’s Scientific Advisory Board, a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Brazil Studies Program, and a member of the Brazil Studies Program Steering Group of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS).
Your career includes experiences in academia, government and as an executive at financial institutions. Today the President of Insper, a leading not–for–profit business and economics school in Brazil, from 2013 to April 2015 he served as its Vice–president. From 2006 to 2009, he served as Executive Director at Itaú Unibanco and as Vice President from 2009 to 2013. From 2005 to 2006, he was President of the Brazilian Reinsurance Institute and had served as the Economic Policy Secretary from Finance Ministry from 2003 to 2005.
CEO of Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation. She holds a degree in International Relations from Estácio de Sá University, a MBA in International Diplomacy, a Masters Degree in Art History from the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) and special certificates from Oxford University and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Professor at the Ruth Cardoso Chair at Insper, Associate Professor at University of São Paulo (USP), member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Committee Coordinator of Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância (NCPI), and Director of CPAPI.
Responsible for the Technical Area of Child Health at the São Paulo State Department of Health (SES/SP). Graduated in Nursing and Obstetrics from Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, she holds an executive education diploma in leadership and public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government – Harvard University, and a master's in Leadership and Public Management from the Center for Public Leadership - CLP.
Pro-Dean for Research at the University of São Paulo (USP). He is Professor at the Physics Institute at USP and a PhD at the University of Uppsala (Sweden). Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, The Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo, and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He has been commended with the Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico.