Experts Meeting: Home and Engaged Fatherhood  
Paper: Nurturing Fatherhood for Men’s Health,Infant’s Health and Gender-Equity

Milton Kotelchuck PhD MPH is currently Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Scientist in Maternal and Child Health in the Division of General Academic Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, and the Research Director of the Fatherhood Project at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was formerly Chairman of the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Depts. at the UNC-Chapel Hill and Boston University Schools of Public Health; and had previously served as the Director of the Division of Health Statistics and Research and then as the Assistant Commissioner for Community Health Services in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He received his PhD in Personality and Developmental Psychology and an MPH in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and Epidemiology from Harvard University.

Dr. Kotelchuck began his own fatherhood research career with his 1972 doctoral thesis, “The Nature of the Child’s Tie to his Father” and has most recently been focused on men’s preconception and perinatal health; on paternal inclusive programs to reduce infant obesity and to encourage father’s participation in NICUs, and on paternal utilization of the MA Paid Family and Medical Leave Act.

Dr. Kotelchuck has extensive experience evaluating public health programs and policies to improve reproductive and child health outcomes and health equity, and serves on numerous MCH state, national and professional committees. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and is the Senior and founding Editor of the Maternal and Child Health Journal.

In 2000, Dr. Kotelchuck was awarded the first National MCH Epidemiology Award for “Advancing Knowledge” from the Coalition for Excellence in MCH Epidemiology, and in 2010, he received the American Public Health Association’s (APHA’s) Martha May Eliot Award, its highest MCH Award, for “exceptional health services for mothers and children”.