Felton Earls

Since 1989, FELTON EARLS has been Professor of Social Medicine and Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Human Development and Behavior at the Harvard School of Public Health. His medical education was completed at Howard University, residency training in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and fellowships in child psychiatry at the Hospital for Sick Children in London and Boston’s Children’s Hospital. From 1981 to 1989, he was Director and Ittleson Professor of Child Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. He directed The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a landmark multilevel, longitudinal study on the causes and consequences of children's exposure to violence.  Currently, he is Principal Investigator of The Ecology of HIV/AIDS and Child Mental Health in Tanzania, a randomized community trial aimed at promoting health and well-being of children in the context of the generalized epidemic of HIV/AIDS. In addition to his many research awards and honors for contributions to human rights, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.