Abbey Alkon

For the past 15 years, Abbey's program of research has focused on understanding the interaction between children's experiences early in life and their individual psychobiology in explaining their physical and mental health. Her studies are community-based, including children in child care programs and children of Mexican-American farmworkers. Since 2001, I have been the Director of the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP), an organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of child care for California’s children by initiating and strengthening linkages between the health, safety, and child care communities and the families they serve.
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