GROW.V.BABY Research Roundtable Seminar

Date/Time: Mar. 17, 2026, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: Zoom
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/3ebh3fGgSTesrbsr9rSTCg#/registration

March GROW.V.BABY Research Roundtable Seminar 

Effective State Policies to Strengthen the Early Years with Dr. Cynthia Osborne

March 17, 2026 | 4:00 pm ET 

Join us on Zoom for Effective State Policies to Strengthen the Early Years with Dr. Cynthia Osborne from the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center and Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Osborne will explore how state-level prenatal-to-three policies translate evidence into measurable benefits for families—covering policy levers, impact calculators, and emerging areas like paid leave, child care, and postpartum care. Register at https://cutt.ly/Roundtable-March-2026

About our speaker: Cynthia Osborne is a Professor of Early Childhood Education and Policy in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College. She is the founder and executive director of the national Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center, an academic research center that translates the science of the developing child into state level policies with the strongest evidence base of effectiveness. Osborne is a 2023 Aspen Institute Ascend Fellow and has also co-authored reports for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years and Exploring the Opportunity Gap for Young Children from Birth to Age Eight. Osborne holds a Ph.D. in demography and public affairs from Princeton University, a Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a Master of Arts in education from Claremont Graduate University.

Learn more about the GROW.V.BABY Research Network at https://www.growbabyresearch.org/