Handbook of Adolescent Development Research and Its Impact on Global Policy
Edited by Jennifer E. Lansford and Prerna Banati
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Edited by Jennifer E. Lansford, Research Professor, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, and Edited by Prerna Banati, Associate Director, Innocenti Research Center, UNICEF, Florence
Jennifer E. Lansford is a Research Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy and Faculty Fellow of the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University. A developmental psychologist by training, Lansford leads an international study of parenting and child development in nine countries that is currently in its tenth annual year of data collection. Her research focuses on the development of aggression and other behavior problems in diverse cultural contexts, with an emphasis on how family and peer contexts contribute to or protect against these outcomes. She has consulted with UNICEF on standards for parenting programs in a number of countries.
Prerna Banati is Chief of Programmes at UNICEF's Office of Research - Innocenti. Her research focuses on the social and structural forces that are among the most fundamental determinants of poor wellbeing among children. She was a Takemi Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard University, and has previously worked at the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria and at the World Health Organization. Before WHO, she was based in South Africa leading research on community HIV prevention and has published in the fields of HIV prevention, reproductive health, health systems and financing.
Contributors:
Prerna Banati, UNICEF, Italy
Milena Batanova, Tufts University, USA
Theresa S. Betancourt, Boston College, USA
Marc H. Bornstein, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, USA
Matilda Branson, Girls Not Brides, UK
Sara Brunelle, University of British Columbia, Canada
Mariana Brussoni, University of British Columbia, Canada
Elena Camilletti, UNICEF, Italy
Hoi Shan Cheung, Yale-National University of Singapore, Singapore
Emily Coles, Harvard University, USA
Katharine Collet, Harvard University, USA
Colette Daiute, City University of New York, USA
Elizabeth Dettori, UNICEF, USA
Elizabeth Dowling, Tufts University, USA
Esther Foluke Akinsola, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Doran French, Purdue University, USA
G. John Geldhof, Oregon State University, USA
Steinunn Gestsdóttir, University of Iceland, Iceland
Geeta Rao Gupta, United Nations Foundation, USA
Susan Herrington, University of British Columbia, Canada
Miriam Hollarek, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Andrea M. Hussong, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Musu Jambai, Caritas, Sierra Leone
Pamela Ebstyne King, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA
Silvia H. Koller, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Lydia Krabbendam, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Jennifer E. Lansford, Duke University, USA
Nikki C. Lee, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Jacqueline V. Lerner, Boston College, USA
Richard M. Lerner, Tufts University, USA
M. Kyle Matsuba, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada
Frosso Motti-Stefanidi, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Protap Mukherjee, Young Lives, India
George Patton, University of Melbourne, Australia
Anne C. Petersen, University of Michigan, USA
Audrey Pettifor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Michael W. Pratt, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Diane L. Putnick, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, USA
Marcela Raffaelli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Search Institute, USA
Juliana Prates Santana, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Susan Sawyer, Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Peter C. Scales, Search Institute, USA
Lorraine Sherr, University College London, UK
Alistair T R Sim, Compassion International, USA
Renu Singh, Young Lives, India
Ruth K. Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Hamsa Subramaniam, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Lakshmi Sundaram, Girls Not Brides, UK
Jonathan M. Tirrell, Tufts University, USA
Ellen Travers, Girls Not Brides, UK
Suman Verma, Panjab University, India
Pamela Wridt, UNICEF, USA
Stephanie Zuilkowski, Florida State University, USA
