Our IHD research portfolio studies and promotes thriving across the life course, with intensive emphases on windows of development in early childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood.
IHD is committed to collaborative early childhood research, training, and partnerships that integrate neuroscience, developmental psychology, education, public health, economics, social welfare, and public policy.
IHD is at the intersection of the generation and dissemination of research to promote adolescent wellbeing and equity, with particular strengths in working with youth in collaborative and participatory research approaches.