Clyde Hertzman

"A passionate visionary, esteemed researcher and early child advocate, Clyde inspired every one of us."
Dr. Hertzman was the Founding Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP). He was the Canada Research Chair in Population Health and Human Development and Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. Nationally, Dr. Hertzman was a Senior Fellow of the Experience-based Brain and Biological Development Programme and the Successful Societies Programs of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIfAR). He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and he held an honorary appointment at the Institute for Child Health, University College, London.
Dr. Hertzman played a central role in creating a framework that links population health to human development, emphasizing the special role of early child development as a determinant of health. His research contributed to international, national, provincial, and community initiatives for healthy child development. He was the recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) 2010 Canada’s Health Researcher of the Year and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2013.
Dr. Hertzman passed away suddenly in February 2013. We continue to hold a special space on our website for remembering Clyde.
Select Publications
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Associations between teacher-rated social, emotional, and cognitive development in kindergarten and self-reported wellbeing, peer relations, and academic test scores in middle childhood.
2016 Early Childhood Research Quarterly
Guhn M. , Gadermann A. , Almas A. , Schonert-Reichl K. , Hertzman C.
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Associations between child home language, gender, bilingualism and school readiness: a population-based study
2016 Early Child Res Q
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Nurturing early childhood development in times of austerity in BC
2015
Posen A. , Siddiqi A. , Hertzman C.
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A population-based study of children’s well-being and health: the relative importance of social relationships, health-related activities, and income.
2015 J Happiness Studies
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Children of chronically ill parents: the silence of research
2014 Child Care Health Dev
Hertzman C. , Marrie R. , Tremlett H. , Boyce T.
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Children of chronically ill parents: the silence of research
2014 Child Care Health Dev
Razaz-Rahmati N. , Hertzman C. , Marrie R. , Tremlett H. , Boyce T.
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Social–emotional competencies make the grade: Predicting academic success in early adolescence
2014 J Applied Dev Psychol
Oberle E. , Schonert-Reichl K. , Hertzman C. , Zumbo B.
Tags:MDI middle childhood development Middle Years Development Instrument SEL social emotional learning adolescence
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The role of supportive adults in promoting positive development in middle childhood: a population-based study
2014 Can J School Pscyhol
Oberle E. , Schonert-Reichl K. , Guhn M. , Zumbo B. , Hertzman C.
Tags:MDI middle childhood development Middle Years Development Instrument SEL social emotional learning
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Bridging immigrants and refugees with early childhood development services: partnership research in the development of an effective service model.
2013 Early Child Development & Care
Poureslami I. , Nimmon L. , Ng K. , Cho S. , Foster S. , Hertzman C.
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Hair cortisol reflects socio-economic factors and hair zinc in preschoolers
2013 Psychoneuroendocrinology
Vaghri Z. , Guhn M. , Weinberg J. , Yu W. , Hertzman C.
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A comparative study of population health in the United States and Canada during the neoliberal era, 1980-2008
2013 International Journal of Health Services
Siddiqi A. , Kawachi I. , Keating D. P. , Hertzman C.
Tags:population health
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Social inequalities in health, early child development and biological embedding
2013 Revue d'Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique
Tags:biology
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Health in All Policies, Chapter 6: Promoting equity from the start through early child development and Health in All Policies (ECD-HiAP)
2013
Mercer R. , Hertzman C. , Molina H. , Vaghri Z.
Tags:gradients
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Monitoring progress towards the fulfillment of rights in early childhood under the convention on the rights of the child to improve outcomes for children and families
2013 Handbook of early childhood development research and its impact on global policy
Hertzman C. , Vaghri Z.
Tags:monitoring child rights
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Prevalenceand frequency of mental health care provided by general practitioners: differences between 2 national data sources for the same population.
2013 Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
Palin J. L. , Goldner E. M. , Koehoorn M. , Hertzman C.
Tags:policy
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Unemployment and mortality: a comparative study of Germany and the United States.
2013 American Journal of Public Health
McLeod C. B. , Lavis J. N. , MacNab Y. C. , Hertzman C.
Tags:population health
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Can communities succeed when states fail them? A case study of early human development and social resilience in a neoliberal era
2013
Hertzman C. , Siddiqi A.
Tags:population health
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Rights of the child to improve outcomes for children and families.
2013
Hertzman C. , Vaghri Z. , Arkadas-Thibert A.
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The significance of early childhood adversity
2013 Paediatrics & Child Health
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Commentary on the symposium: Biological embedding, life course development, and the emergence of a new science.
2013 Annual Review of Public Health
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Epigenetic vestiges of early developmental adversity: childhood stress exposure and DNA methylation in adolescence
2013 Child Development
Essex M. J. , Boyce T. , Hertzman C. , Lam L. , Armstrong J. M. , Neumann S.
Tags:biology
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Epigenetic vestiges of early developmental adversity: childhood stress exposure and DNA methylation in adolescence
2013 Child Development
Essex M. J. , Boyce T. , Hertzman C. , Lam L. , Armstrong J. M. , Neumann S. , Kobor M. S.
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A population study of victimization, relationships, and well-being in middle childhood.
2012 Journal of Happiness Studies
Guhn M. , Schonert-Reichl K. , Gadermann A. , Hymel S. , Hertzman C.
Tags:middle childhood development Middle Years Development Instrument MDI
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Development and validation of the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI): assessing children’s well-being and assets across multiple contexts
2012 Social Indicators Research
Schonert-Reichl K. , Guhn M. , Gadermann A. , Hymel S. , Sweiss L. , Hertzman C.
Tags:MDI middle childhood development Middle Years Development Instrument
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Putting the concept of biological embedding in historical perspective
2012 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Frontal EEG/ERP correlates of attentional processes, cortisol and motivational states in adolescents from lower and higher socioeconomic status
2012 Front Hum Neurosci
D'Angiulli A. , Van Roon P. M. , Weinberg J. , Oberlander T. , Hertzman C. , Maggi S.
Tags:biology
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Early childhood development: adverse experiences and developmental health
2012
Boivin M. , Hertzman C.
Tags:EDI Early Development Instrument biology early experience
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Putting the concept of biological embedding in historical perspective
2012 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Tags:biology early experience
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Jurisdictional, socioeconomic and gender inequalities in child health and development: Analysis of a national census of 5 year olds in Australia.
2012 British Medical Journal
Brinkman S. , Gialamas A. , Rahman A. , Mittinty M. N. , Gregory T. , Silburn S. , Goldfeld S. , Zubrick S. , Carr V. , Janus M. , Hertzman C. , Lynch J. W.
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Childhood psychosocial adversity and adult cortisol patterns
2012 The British Journal of Psychiatry
Power C. , Thomas C. , Li L. , Hertzman C.
Tags:biology
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Unemployment and mortality: A comparative study of Germany and the United States.
2012 American Journal of Public Health
McLeod C. , Lavis J. N. , MacNab Y. C. , Hertzman C.
Tags:population health
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Prevalence and frequency of mental health care provided by general practitioners: Differences between 2 national data sources for the same population
2012 Canadian Journal Of Psychiatry
Palin J. L. , Goldner E. M. , Koehoorn M. , Hertzman C.
Tags:population health
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How society shapes the health gradient: work-related health inequalities in a comparative perspective
2012 Annual Review of Public Health
Hall P. A. , Siddiqi A. , Hertzman C.
Tags:social gradients
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Education determines a nation's health, but what determines educational outcomes? A cross-national comparative analysis
2012 Journal of Public Health Policy
Siddiqi A. , Kawachi I. , Berkman L. , Hertzman C. , Subramanian S.
Tags:population health
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Priorities for research on equity and health: Towards an equity-focused health research agenda
2011 Plos Medicine
Ostlin P. , Schrecker T. , Sadana R. , Bonnefoy J. , Gilson L. , Hertzman C. , Vaghri Z.
Tags:gradients
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Associations with early-life socio-economic position in adult DNA methylation
2011 International Journal of Epidemiology
Borghol N. , Suderman M. , McArdle W. , Racine A. , Hallett M. , Pembrey M. , Hertzman C. , Szyf M.
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Epigenetic vestiges of early developmental adversity: Childhood stress exposure and DNA methylation in adolescence
2011 Child Development
Essex M. J. , Boyce T. , Hertzman C. , Lam L. , Armstrong J. M. , Neumann S. , Kobor M. S.
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'SSRIs in late pregnancy: The risk of neonatal respiratory distress and seizures': Reply
2011 Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
Tags:biology
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Bringing a population health perspective to early biodevelopment: An emerging approach
2011
Tags:population health EDI early child development Early Development Instrument ECD
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Opening remarks to the special issue on validation theory and research for a population-level measure of children’s development, wellbeing, and school readiness
2011 Social Indicators Research
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Validation theory and research for a population-level measure of children’s development, wellbeing, and school readiness
2011 Social Indicators Research
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Reply. [Article]
2011 Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
Tags:monitoring
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Associations of socio-demographic and behavioral variables with hair zinc of Vancouver preschoolers
2011 Biological Trace Element Research
Vaghri Z. , Wong H. , Barr S. I. , Chapman G. E. , Hertzman C.
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Early child development: A powerful equalizer
2011
Siddiqi A. , Hertzman E. , Irwin L. , Hertzman C.
Tags:gradients
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Promoting children’s prosocial behaviors in school: Impact of the “Roots of Empathy” program on the social and emotional competence of school-aged children
2011 School Mental Health
Schonert-Reichl K. , Smith V. , Hertzman C.
Tags:middle childhood development SEL social emotional learning
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The impact of placing adolescent males into foster care on their education, income assistance and incarcerations
2011
Warburton W. , Warburton R. , Sweetman A. , Hertzman C.
Tags:policy
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A register study of the impact of stopping third trimester selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor exposure on neonatal health
2010 Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
Warburton W. , Hertzman C. , Oberlander T.
Tags:biology
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Bucking the inequality gradient through early child development
2010 British Journal of Medicine
Hertzman C. , Siddiqi A. , Hertzman E. , Irwin L. , Vaghri Z. , Houweling T.
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Children's development in kindergarten: A multilevel, population-based analysis of ESL and gender effects on socioeconomic gradients
2010 Child Indicators Research
Guhn M. , Gadermann A. , Hertzman C. , Zumbo B.
Tags:gradients EDI early child development Early Development Instrument ECD
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Development of an integrated child health information system for children who are deaf or hard of hearing
2010 Paediatrics & Child Health
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How experience gets under the skin to create gradients in developmental health
2010 Annual Review Of Public Health
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Our Children’s Voices: The Middle Years Development Instrument
2010
Schonert-Reichl K. , Guhn M. , Hymel S. , Hertzman C. , Sweiss L. , Gadermann A.
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The economic costs of early vulnerability in Canada
2010 Canadian Journal of Public Health
Kershaw P. , Warburton B. , Hertzman C. , Irwin L. , Forer B.
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Creating communities for young children: A toolkit for change
2009
Schroeder J. , Razaz-Rahmati N. , Negreiros J. , Ford L. , Kershaw P. , Wiens M. , Vaghri Z. , Stefanowicz A. , Irwin L. , Hertzman C.
Tags:resources monitoring community EDI Early Development Instrument
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Early years resource list
2009 Paediatrics & Child Health
Black A. , Mustard F. , Hertzman C. , Bertrand J. , Wiens M.
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Guide to the British Columbia atlas of child development
2009 Building capacity for diversity in Canadian schools
Hertzman C. , Kershaw P. , Irwin L. , Trafford L. , Wiens M.
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The use of population-level data to advance interdisciplinary methodology: A cell-through-society sampling framework for child development research
2009 International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Kershaw P. , Forer B. , Lloyd J. , Hertzman C. , Boyce T. , Zumbo B. , Guhn M. , Milbrath C. , Irwin L.
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The Early Development Instrument (EDI) in British Columbia: Documenting impact and action in schools, community, and early child development
2008
Mort J. N. , Hughes N. , Dockendorf M. , Quigg P. , Hertzman C.
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Toward a social care program of research: A population-level study of neighborhood effects on child development
2007 Early Education and Development
Kershaw P. , Forer B. , Irwin L. , Lapointe V. , Hertzman C.
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Total Environment Assessment Model for Early Child Development
2007
Siddiqi A. , Irwin L. , Hertzman C.
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WHO final report: Early child development: A powerful equalizer
2007
Irwin L. , Siddiqi A. , Hertzman C.
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It takes a child to raise a community: ‘Population-based’ measurement of early child development
2007
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What Canadians Need to Know About Good Quality Child Care
2006
Goelman H. , Hertzman C. , Kershaw P.
Tags:ECD Op-ed child care
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New knowledge about nurturing neighbourhoods: the BC atlas of child development. Executive summary.
2006
Kershaw P. , Irwin L. , Trafford K. , Hertzman C.
Tags:early child development EDI Early Development Instrument ECD
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The association of early childhood care and education to children’s experiences in Kindergarten.
2005
Kohen D. , Lipps G. , Hertzman C.
Tags:early child development EDI Early Development Instrument ECD
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Healthier societies: From analysis to action
2005
Heymann J. , Hertzman C. , Barer M. L. , Evans R. G.
Tags:policy
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Report on the Early Development Indicator mapping in BC
2005
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The British Columbia atlas of child development
2005
Kershaw P. , Trafford K. , Hertzman C.
Tags:early child development monitoring EDI Early Development Instrument ECD
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Healthy Child BC Forum: Executive summaries
2004
Hertzman C. , Irwin L. , Jenkins M. , Hoube J.