Rutgers Health Management Perspectives: Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis

She will be discussing, “Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis.”

Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the co-director of the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Currie is a pioneer in the economic analysis of child development. Her current research focuses on socioeconomic differences in health, environmental threats to health, child mental health, and the long-run impact of child health. She has presented her work at universities around the world and in venues ranging from the White House to the European Investment Bank. She holds honorary degrees from the University of Lyon, the University of Zurich, and the Università della Svizzera Italiana and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Art and Sciences, and the British Academy. She was the 2024 President of the American Economic Association. She is a distinguished CES Fellow, and a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society of Labor Economists, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She was chosen as a NOMIS Distinguished Scientist in 2019 and won the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize in 2023. She was named one of the top 10 women in Economics by the World Economic Forum in 2015. Currie has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science, as the Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature, and on the editorial boards of many other journals.