Dr. Philip Fisher is the Diana Chen Professor of Early Childhood in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University and the Director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood, home of the RAPID Survey Project. His research focuses on developing and evaluating scalable early childhood interventions in communities, and on translating scientific knowledge regarding healthy development under conditions of adversity for use in social policy and programs. He is particularly interested in the effects of early stressful experiences on children’s neurobiological and psychological development, and in prevention and treatment programs for improving children’s functioning in areas such as relationships with caregivers and peers, social-emotional development, and academic achievement. He is currently the lead investigator in the ongoing RAPID-EC project, a national survey on the well-being of households with young children during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has published over 200 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals. He is the recipient of the 2012 Society for Prevention Research Translational Science Award, and a 2019 Fellow of the American Psychological Society.
Philip A. Fisher
Director, Center for Translational Neuroscience
University of Oregon