Program Overview

Program Overview

The Early Childhood Development: Global Strategies for Interventions program is a 7-week course that explores best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale. The course is delivered via edX and features faculty from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Course Details

• Course Length: 7 weeks
• Time Commitment: 1-3 hours a week
• Certificate Price: $149
• Class Dates: Apr 23, 2025 - Apr 22, 2026

Learning Outcomes

• Gain knowledge about the state of the science on effective interventions for early childhood development
• Reflect on changes for your program, becoming familiar with the steps to design successful interventions that support early childhood development
• Explore strategies to enable widespread adaptation of quality programming and evaluate the effectiveness of your programming

Faculty

• Aisha Yousafzai, Associate Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Pia Britto, UNICEF

Guest Speakers

• Dr. Marquita Davis, Deputy Director of Early Learning at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Dr. Christine Powell, Caribbean Institute for Health Research at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica
• Sumitra Mishra, Executive Director of Mobile Creches
• Sabrina Habib, Co-Founder and Chief Exploration Officer at Kidogo
• Ayah Younis, Writer and Illustrator in Jordan from Ahlan Simsim
• Marie Louise Samuels, Former Director Early Childhood Development in the Department of Basic Education in South Africa
• Claudia Andrea Zamora Reszczynski, Specialist in the National Team of Chile Crece Contigo at the Ministry of Social Development and Family of Chile

Ways to Take the Course

• Audit or Pursue a Verified Certificate
• Verified Certificate: $149, provides unlimited access to full course materials, activities, tests, and forums
• Audit: free, access to select course material, activities, tests, and forums, no certificate provided

Program Description

The program examines best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale, showing learners how to generate an innovative, scalable intervention strategy that supports early childhood development. The course begins with a review of basic early childhood development concepts and successful implementation programs around the world. Learners will complete the course with new plans and ideas ready to implement within their program.