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Child Care and Health in America
Today's Challenges for Tomorrow's Children

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CHILD CARE AND HEALTH IN AMERICA: Today’s Challenges for Tomorrow’s Children
Presented in Collaboration with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR

Quality child care can help children develop lasting social, emotional, and learning skills and can promote healthy eating and play. But high-quality care, whether it comes from a nanny, a sitter, a daycare, or a preschool, can be difficult to find—and to afford. Drawing on the findings of a newly released poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, this Forum event brought together a panel of experts to discuss parents’ priorities and perceptions about their children’s care and how they square up against expert assessments of child care quality. How do parents find and select child care, and how does that care impact the health and well-being of children and families? How can child care be made accessible, high-quality and affordable? How do we even measure quality in a meaningful and accountable way? Forum panelists discussed ways to equip parents with better information about child care, and policy changes that can help children thrive.

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Presented in Collaboration with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR

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Moderator

Joe Neel
Deputy Senior Supervising Editor and a Correspondent on the Science Desk, NPR

Expert Participants

Gillian SteelFisher
Senior Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Deputy Director of the Harvard Opinion Research Program (HORP) and Director of Global Polling Unit, HORP

Kristin Schubert
Managing Director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Susan Hibbard
Executive Director of the BUILD Initiative

Rachel Schumacher
Director, Office of Child Care, US Department of Health and Human Services

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