Dr. Matthew Jukes

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Matthew Jukes' research aims to improve access and quality of education in developing countries. He is interested in the evaluation of education interventions through the development of assessment methods. Matthew has applied these methods to the evaluation of many different education interventions, with a particular focus on school health programs. These programs aim to improve children's learning through the treatment and prevention of common conditions such as worm infections, malaria and iron deficiency. This work is described in a recent book: Health, Nutrition and Education for All: Leveling the Playing Field. Matthew's work has also addressed the intersection of health and education through work on HIV/AIDS prevention education and children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. The other main area of Matthew's research investigates how many children in sub-Saharan Africa succeed at school despite many challenges facing them and their families. Matthew's has conducted research in Kenya, Tanzania, Gambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa, India, Bangladesh and the Philippines.

Ms. Cheryl Vince Whitman

Education Development Center

Cheryl Vince Whitman is a Senior Vice President at EDC, Inc. (http://www.edc.org) where she directs the division of Health and Human Development Programs (HHD-http://www.hhd.org). She also serves as Director of HHD's work as the World Health Organization Collaborating Center to Promote Health through Schools and Communities. Since 1995, Cheryl has dedicated much of her professional work to studying the link between health and education and to designing programs and strategies with WHO, other United Nations Agencies, ministries of education and health, schools and community agencies in many parts of the world. A particular interest is how schools and communities can promote and protect the mental health of school staff and students. She has developed many policy and program tools to advance health promotion in schools and has written extensively about what is effective in the process of implementing health promotion programs in schools. Ms. Vince Whitman is a graduate of McGill University, Boston University, and Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Dr. Myron L. Belfer

Harvard Medical School

Dr. Belfer, Professor of Psychiatry, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School . He is Senior Associate in Psychiatry at the Boston Children's Hospital and Co-Chair of the International Child Mental Health Program sponsored by Children's Hospital Boston and the Department of Social Medicine. He served as Senior Adviser for Child and Adolescent Mental Health in the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at the World Health Organization in Geneva from 2000 to 2005. He is immediate past President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions and Co-chair of the International Relations Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He trained in adult and child psychiatry at Harvard Medical School affiliated programs and has a Masters in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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