The Social Research Unit Annual Lecture invites you!

This year's annual lecture will host Dr. Jack Shonkoff, Professor of Child Health and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health.

There have been several major breakthroughs in neuro-science in the last two decades. These are beginning to influence the formation of public policy, and the way in which children's services engage with children. Much of the data emphasises the importance of the early years. But science is revealing the importance of subsequent sensitive periods in brain development, in the primary school years, in adolescence and early adulthood that all promise new ways of promoting health and development of children. Professor Shonkoff is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts in neuro-science and its application to policy and practice.
 
Jack P. Shonkoff, MD, is the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education, and founding director of the university-wide Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. He also chairs the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, a multi-university collaboration comprising leading scholars in neuroscience, developmental psychology, pediatrics, and economics, whose mission is to bring sound and accurate science to bear on public decision making affecting the lives of young children. 
 
The theme for this year's lecture is on "Leveraging Developmental Science to Strengthen the Foundations of Lifelong Learning, Behaviour and Health." This will be a rare opportunity to hear from a person widely regarded as one of the world's leading authorities in neuroscience and its application to policy and practice.
 
When: Thursday, July 7, 2011 at 5PM
Where: at the Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE.
 
The Annual Lecture and reception are free but you must reserve a place to attend.  To reserve a place now, follow this link: http://sru2011annuallecture.eventbrite.com
 
The lecture will be preceded by a reception.
 
When:  7 July, 2011,  5pm 

Where: Royal Society of Medicine, One Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE