Janina R. Galler

Janina R. Galler MD
Other names	Janina Galler
Residence	Massachusetts, United States
Citizenship	United States
Nationality	American
Fields	Psychiatry
Institutions	Harvard Medical School
Education	Sophie Newcomb College
Alma mater	Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Thesis	(1972)
Doctoral advisor	Herbert G. Birch, MD (developmental psychologist)[1]
Other academic advisors	Herbert G. Birch, MD
Known for	45+-year longitudinal Barbados Nutrition Study
Influences	Herbert G. Birch, MD, Leon Eisenberg
Notable awards	US Senate Fellow, First Recipient of the Joseph P. Kennedy Public Policy Leadership Award in Mental Retardation, Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Research in Child Psychiatry, 2016 Leon Eisenberg Award in Child Psychiatry
Children	2 daughters
Website https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/74587

Janina R. Galler, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School,^[2][3] and Psychiatrist in the Chester M. Pierce MD Division of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.^[4][5] Her research, including a 45-year Barbados Nutrition Study in the Lesser Antilles, in the Americas. Her longitudinal study showed the intergenerational legacy of poverty and disadvantage that result from childhood malnutrition.

In 1984, Galler published Nutrition and Behavior, part 3 in a 5-volume series, Human Nutrition: A Comprehensive Treatise.^[6]

She also is a researcher in the Center for the Developing Child of Harvard University^[7] and a Senior Scientist at the Judge Baker Children's Center of Harvard Medical School in Boston's Longwood Medical Area.

Galler has received more than 30 years of uninterrupted research support from the National Institutes of Health.^[8] During her career, she has chaired the Advisory Council of the Eunice K. Shriver National Institutes of Child Health and Development (NICHHD) served on the NIH Directors Advisory Council. She has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and two volumes on nutrition and behavior^[9] and for 45 years has been Director of the Barbados Nutrition Study.

Education

• Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University, Chemistry and Philosophy, summa cum laude, 1967-1969
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine, summa cum laude, 1970
• Massachusetts General Hospital, residency training in Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry (began July 1, 1970)

In addition to English, Dr. Galler speaks and writes in Castilian Spanish, Hebrew, Portuguese, and Yiddish.

Research

Galler's research focus is early life malnutrition and its long-term, cascading effects on mental health developments both in those children and in the societies in which they are involved. Since 1973, she has served as the Director of the 45+-year longitudinal Barbados Nutrition Study.

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