Daniel Keating, Ph.D.
Director and Research Professor, CHGD;
Professor of Psychology, College of LS&A;
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics & Communicable Diseases, Medical School; Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Daniel Keating is a developmental psychologist whose research focuses on integrating knowledge about biodevelopmental processes, population patterns in developmental health, and social factors affecting individual and population development.   His recent and current work has been organized around three major topics:

• Analyses of longitudinal datasets to study population outcomes of developmental health with regard to how those patterns may be explained by underlying developmental mechanisms, some of which are conducted collaboratively as a principal investigator on the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, and which will also be a focus of forthcoming research of the Michigan Alliance for the National Children's Study;
• Basic processes in adolescent cognitive and brain development, including neurocognitive and neuroimaging studies of prefrontal development and their relation to health-related risk behavior;
• A community-based longitudinal study on the factors that influence high school girls' engagement with and participation in mathematics and science in and beyond high school.

A major thrust of this work has been to identify the social circumstances that have an enduring impact on developmental health, and to discover the developmental mechanisms through which those social circumstances operate.   A longer term goal of this line of work is to identify the key aspects of social environments that shape developmental experiences in early childhood through the adolescent transition, in ways that can be addressed at the level of policy and practice.

Keating is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, a member of the CIAR Successful Societies Program, and was the Director of the CIAR Human Development Program. He is also a Mentor in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program at the University of Michigan.