This project documents the unique paths of MCH leaders in academe, focused on five key questions. The hope of this project is to preserve these experience and the wisdom from the field that each expert brings and also to inspire a new generation of MCH academics.
Bernard Guyer (currently retired) has conducted research focused on improving the health of children, their mothers, and their families -- in this country and in the developing world -- using the tools of public health. The specific areas of his research included, immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases, childhood injury and injury prevention, the causes and strategies to reduce infant mortality, and interventions to strengthen human development during the early portion of the lifespan.
A physician trained in both preventive medicine and pediatrics, Dr. Guyer served for seven years as director of the state MCH program in Massachusetts, and for five years as a CDC medical epidemiologist with national and international service. He has chaired or been a member of both state and national committees on childhood injury prevention, outreach for prenatal care, infant mortality, and Medicaid. Dr. Guyer and colleagues at both Harvard and Hopkins have further contributed to providing research that can be used to strengthen the way in which the MCH field addresses its most pressing problems across the lifespan.
Click below to listen to Bernard Guyer's story as he responds to five questions.