AC21 - G1 - Policy Opportunities to Promote Social-Emotional Development by Leveraging Title V, Medicaid and the Medical Home

David Willis, MD, FAAP, serves as a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP), is the founder of Nurture Connection, and is a national expert in pediatrics, early childhood systems, and early relational health. Dr. Willis is also a member of the ECDHS: Evidence to Impact Center’s National Advisory Board.  

Kay Johnson, MPH, MEd, is nationally recognized as a maternal and child health policy (MCH) analyst, advocate, and consultant. Her work at Children’s Defense Fund, March of Dimes, George Washington University, and Johnson Consulting have helped to shape the direction of MCH and Medicaid policy since 1984. Her expertise encompasses a wide range of women’s and children’s policies at the federal and state levels. Reducing poverty and racism and increasing access are two of her lifelong goals. 

Stephanie Doyle is a member of the Young Children and Their Families Team, supporting CSSP's work to prevent and mitigate the effects of toxic stress on children and families, with a focus on strengthening the role of families as leaders and advocates in early childhood systems. Stephanie is CSSP's lead content expert on quality improvement, helping the Early Childhood-LINC network use this approach. Before joining CSSP, she served as Project Director for the Defending Childhood Initiative at the Boston Public Health Commission, a US Department of Justice demonstration project to prevent and reduce the impact of childrens exposure to violence in homes, schools and communities. As part of that work, she led the design and implementation of a Trauma-Informed Early Education and Care Centers Breakthrough Series Collaborative that worked with Boston early care and education centers to use quality improvement methods to implement and adopt trauma-informed practices, policies and environments. Doyle is a graduate of Villanova University and earned a master's degree in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.