Dr. Hertzman is Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), College of Interdisciplinary Studies at UBC; Canada Research Chair in Population Health and Human Development and Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC.

Nationally, Dr. Hertzman is a fellow of the Experience-based Brain and Biological Development Programme and the Successful Societies Programs of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIfAR). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He holds an honorary appointment at the Institute for Child Health, University College, London.

Dr. Hertzman has played a central role in creating a framework that links population health to human development, emphasizing the special role of early childhood development as a determinant of health. His research has contributed to international, national, provincial, and community initiatives for healthy child development. He is the recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) 2010 Canada's Health Researcher of the Year and the Canadian Institute of Child Health (CICH) 2010 National Child Day Award.

Publications

• 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.

• 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. , Zaidman-Zait A. , Hertzman C.

• 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.

• 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.

• 'SSRIs in late pregnancy: The risk of neonatal respiratory distress and seizures': Reply

  • 2011 Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • Hertzman C. , Oberlander T. F.

• Bringing a population health perspective to early biodevelopment: An emerging approach

  • 2011 Nature and Nurture in Early Child Development
  • Hertzman C.

• 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
  • Guhn M. , Zumbo B. , Janus M. , Hertzman C.

• Validation theory and research for a population-level measure of children’s development, wellbeing, and school readiness

  • 2011 Social Indicators Research
  • Guhn M. , Zumbo B. , Janus M. , Hertzman C.

• Reply. [Article]

  • 2011 Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • Hertzman C. , Oberlander T. F.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Development of an integrated child health information system for children who are deaf or hard of hearing

  • 2010 Paediatrics & Child Health
  • Poon B. , Hertzman C.

• How experience gets under the skin to create gradients in developmental health

  • 2010 Annual Review Of Public Health
  • Hertzman C. , Boyce T.

• Our children’s voices: The Middle Years Development Instrument

  • 2010
  • Schonert-Reichl K. , Guhn M. , Hymel S. , Hertzman C. , Sweiss L. , Gadermann A.

• The economic costs of early vulnerability in Canada

  • 2010 Canadian Journal of Public Health
  • Kershaw P. , Warburton B. , Anderson L. , Hertzman C. , Irwin L. , Forer B.

• 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. F.

• Creating communities for young children: A toolkit for change

  • 2009
  • Schroeder J. , Harvey J. , Razaz-Rahmati N. , Corless G. , Negreiros J. , Ford L. , Kershaw P. , Anderson L. , Wiens M. , Vaghri Z. , Stefanowicz A. , Irwin L. , Hertzman C.

• 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. , Harvey J. , Hershler R. , Smith A. N.

• 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.

• It takes a child to raise a community: ‘Population-based’ measurement of early child development

  • 2007
  • Hertzman C. , Irwin L.

• Total Environment Assessment Model for Early Child Development

  • 2007
  • Siddiqi A. , Irwin L. , Hertzman C.

• WHO final report: Early child development: A powerful equalizer

  • 2007
  • Irwin L. , Siddiqi A. , Hertzman C.

• Healthier societies: From analysis to action

  • 2005
  • Heymann J. , Hertzman C. , Barer M. L. , Evans R. G.

• The British Columbia atlas of child development

  • 2005
  • Kershaw P. , Trafford K. , Hertzman C.

Projects

• Global Knowledge Network
• Child Rights