Acknowledgements

© 2013 The Urban Child Institute
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Suggested citation:
The Urban Child Institute. (2013). The State of Children in Memphis and Shelby County: Data Book. Memphis, TN: The Urban Child Institute.  

The Urban Child Institute’s The State of Children in Memphis and Shelby County: Data Book could not be produced and distributed without the help of numerous people.

The publication was assembled and produced under the general direction of The Urban Child Institute’s Director of Data Management, Catherine Joyce, M.A. Marc Goodman-Bryan, M.A., Research Associate of The Urban Child Institute, served as editor and also contributed a large share of original content.

The Institute is appreciative for domain contributions from several community researchers.

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT: Daniel Goldowitz, M.D., Professor of Medical Genetics at University of British Columbia and Senior Scientist of Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics, Michael Kobor, M.D., Associate Professor of Medical Genetics at University of British Columbia and Scientist of Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics, & Pat Levitt, M.D., Provost Professor and Director of Graduate Program of Neuroscience at Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California.

HEALTH: Kristen Morrell, MPH, HIV/STD Epidemiologist & Jennifer Kmet, MPH, Senior Epidemiologist of Shelby County Health Department, Epidemiology Section.

FAMILY & HOME: Karin Scott & Marc Goodman-Bryan, M.A., Research 6 Associate of The Urban Child Institute.

EDUCATION: Shahin Samiei, MPH, Research Associate of University of Memphis & Marie Sell, Ph.D., Research Evaluator of Memphis City Schools, Office of Evaluation.

BEST PRACTICE - CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: Megan Banet, M.A., Prevention Specialist & Beryl Wight, M.A.T., Communications Coordinator.

SPECIAL INTEREST - CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: Megan Banet, M.A., Prevention Specialist & Beryl Wight, M.A.T., Communications Coordinator.

COMMUNITY: Robert Brimhall, M.A. & Jackson Gilman of River City GIS Consulting LLC.

Special thanks are also due to Juliane Richter from The University of Memphis Center for Multimedia Arts for design and layout. Additionally, UCI is appreciative of the work of Tom Jones of Smart City Memphis on the Introduction.