Webinar series
The Newborn Behavior International (NBI) is proud to present the Leaders in the Field Webinar Series! We invite you to join us on the first Wednesday of each month. Please find the list of confirmed speakers for 2025 below.
Learn more about Elaine Meyer, our July Speaker!
2025 speaker schedule
For 2025, there will be no webinars held in January or August.
February 5th
Karen Adolph – Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University
April 2nd
Nicki Dawson – Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa and University of Stellenbosch
May 7th
Kerim Munir – Division of Developmental Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
June 4th
Claudia Passos-Ferreira – Assistant Professor of Bioethics at New York University School of Global Public Health
July 2nd
Elaine Meyer – Center for Bioethics, Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard Medical School; Boston Children’s Hospital; Adjunct Professor, College of Nursing University of Rhode Island
September 3rd
Ndidiamaka Nneoma Amutah–Onukagha – Julia A. Okoro Professor of Black Maternal Health, Tufts University
October 1st
Aditi Subramaniam – Director, Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Policy, MA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC); Faculty, Brazelton Institute and UMass Chan Medical School Early Relational Health
November 5th
Claudia Gold – Infant-Parent Mental Health Specialist and Author; Faculty, Brazelton Institute and Faculty, UMass Chan Medical School Early Relational Health
December 3rd
Susan Nicolson – Women’s Mental Health Service, Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne; Associate Professor, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Melbourne
Past webinars
Learn more about our past webinars and speakers
Claudia Passos Ferreira – The Development of Consciousness in Infants
Kerim Munir – From Earthquakes to Early Minds: Lessons in Global Mental Health, Development, and Disabilities
Nicki Dawson – In Search of Contextually-Relevant Infant Mental Health Practice: A journey from practice back to theory
Elaine C. Meyer – Everyday Clinical Ethics in the Care of Infants and Their Families
Karen E. Adolph – How Behavior Develops
Neil W. Boris – Reflections on My Journey with the Circle of Security
Lise Johnson, MD – The Newborn Behavioral Observations System: Where did it come from, where is it now, and what does the future hold?
Dr. Nim Tottenham – Emotion Regulation Neurodevelopment & the Caregiver
Dr. Barbara Stroud – Reimagining the Field of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Dr. Serena Wieder – Did We Need Another Model or Theory of Development and Intervention? DIR®: The Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship based Model©
Dr. Kari Slinning – The First 1000 Days in Nordic Countries
Stephen W. Porges, PhD – Polyvagal Theory: A Science of Safety
Dr. Jane Bernstein – A View from the Future
Cyndie Hatcher, MD – Small Moments, Big Impact: A Relational Health Tool
Matthew Melmed, JD – Using Your Leadership to be a Bigger Voice for Little Ones
Martha G. Welch – How infants and children depend upon and benefit from autonomic emotional connection (AEC) with their mothers, and why
Nucha Isarowong and Carmen Rosa Noroña – Centering Critical Consciousness, Critical Self-Reflection, Racial Equity and Inclusion in Reflective Supervision/Consultation
Professors Kaija Puura and Antoine Guedeney – From Social Withdrawal Behavior to Shared Pleasure
Professor Louise Newman, AM – Thinking about relational trauma in infancy
Professor Jane Barlow – Conceptual and empirical advances in our understanding about the relationship with the unborn baby, and their implications for practice
Professors Charles Super and Sara Harkness – How Cultures Care for Young Children, and Why It Matters
Dr. Patricia Marks Greenfield – Infant Care and Development: Historical change and cross-cultural value conflict in pathways to attachment and family relationships
Dr. Dominique Charlot-Swilley – Revitalizing How We Serve: Sitting at the Feet of the Storyteller
Paula D. Zeanah and Charles H. Zeanah – Neglect in Young Children: Efects on Infants, Caregivers and Providers
Jay Belsky, Emeritus Professor – Beyond Mental Health: Child Development in Evolutionary Perspective
Linda Gilkerson, PhD, LSW – Journey Toward Connection and Understanding: Story of Facilitating Attuned Interactions (FAN)
L. Alan Sroufe, PhD – The Legacy of Early Experience
Constance Keefer, MD – Narrative Analysis of Parent-Pediatrician Discourse in Well-Child Visits
Eurnestine Brown, PhD – Black Babies are Beautiful: Let’s talk about Skin Color
Hisako Watanabe, MD, PhD – Reviving ‘Amae’ and Intuitive Parenting in the Therapeutic Relationship：Being Available to the Baby-Parent Relational Capacity
Professor Helen Milroy – Born Into Stories
William J. Barbaresi, MD – From Research to Clinical Care: 25 Years of ADHD Research and the Development of a New Practice Guideline
Tiffany Field, PhD – Massage Therapy for Infants and Children
Presented by Cynthia García Coll, PhD – Children’s Development In Contexts: Theoretical shortcomings and advances
Prof. Jonathan Delafield-Butt – Infant Intentions as the Origin of Shared Meaning
Judy Palfrey – Child Health in America – Why the US needs child health leadership NOW!
Hiram Fitzgerald – Origins of Aggression in Infancy and Early Childhood: Fathers and Sons
Jayne Singer, PhD, IECMH-E® – Integrity and Integration in Infant Mental Health: Lessons Learned through Newborn Behavioral Observations
Barry M. Lester – Early Identification of the Infant at Risk
Nathan Fox – Infants have their own personalities: The Influence of Temperament Across Child Development
William (Bill) Fifer, PhD – Interrogating the Sleeping Fetal and Infant Brain
Arietta Slade, PhD – The Relational Foundations of Reflective Practice and Reflective Parenting
Vasudevi Reddy – Openness in Infancy
Deborah Weatherston, PhD – The heART of Reflective Supervision
Alicia F. Lieberman, PhD – Internalizing Reality
Brenda Jones-Harden – Infants in the Child Welfare System
Heidelise Als – Listening to the Voice of the Newborn
Joshua Sparrow, Barbara Rogoff, & Gilda Morelli – Infant relationships, synchrony, and culture
Dieter Wolke – Infant Regulatory Problems and Developmental Trajectories
Colwyn Boyd Trevarthen – Human Life and Learning Before Language
Dr. Charles Nelson – Sensitive Periods in Development
Dr. Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern – Psychological Processes During the Sensitive Time of Birth
Ed Tronick – Brazelton’s Newborn Assessment
Joy Osofsky – Addressing Prenatal Risk
Campbell Paul – The Baby Wished for More…