Lise Johnson

Zambian Healthcare Nonprofit with Close Ties to Brazelton Institute Director Wins Prestigious Social Innovation Award

A nonprofit organization that improves healthcare services for school children in Zambia received a prestigious 2025 Skoll Award for Social Innovation in March. Brazelton Institute Director — home of the Newborn Behavioral Assessment Scale and Newborn Behavioral Observations System — and Brigham and Women’s Hospital pediatrician Lise Johnson, MD, chairs the organization’s Board of Directors. Healthy Learners partners with ...


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Colwyn Trevarthen

Tributes to Colwyn Trevarthen

The word that Colwyn Trevarthen had died on July 2nd 2024, was greeted with a deep sense of sadness and loss by all who knew him.  He was much admired and much loved.  Colwyn is remembered not only for his brilliantly innovative scholarship but also for his professional generosity, his enthusiasm and his capacity to ...


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Yukiyo Nagai

New NBAS Master Trainers

NBAS Trainer Inge Nickell, Director of Brazelton Centre UK, and two NBAS Trainers from Japan, Masako Nagata and Yukiyo Nagai, were designated NBAS Master Trainers by Lise Johnson, Director of the Brazelton Institute, May 2024. Inge was nominated by Joanna Hawthorne and Betty Hutchon, while Masako and Yukiyo were nominated by Shohei Ohgi and Kevin ...


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Jayne Singer

Dr. Jayne Singer Honored with the T. Berry Brazelton Award for Innovation

Jayne Singer PhD IECMH-E® has been honored by the Boston Children’s Hospital, Division of Developmental Medicine with the T. Berry Brazelton Award for Innovation.  The award is given for “key advances in innovation, creativity in practice, scientifically or administratively, creation of new systems to solve problems, scientific advances, program development, and impact”.   Jayne Singer is ...


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Kevin Nugent and Lise Johnson holding an award

Celebrating the Remarkable Dr. Kevin Nugent in Dublin

Development needs relationship. This is a central theme at the Brazelton Institute, and for its founder, Dr. Kevin Nugent, this is not just an academic concept, but a way of being and a way of leading. There are ideas, and then there are the persons and the relationships behind them. In Kevin’s narrative, core infant ...


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10th International NBAS & NBO Trainers Meeting

On July 14th, 2023, NBAS and NBO trainers from around the world met for a one-day conference at the beautiful Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The conference day was held prior to the 18th World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) congress. After a wonderful welcome by Dr. Lise Johnson, Dr. Kevin Nugent grounded us ...


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