Speakers Bureau

Conversations, Grand Rounds, Presentations, and Workshops on Babies, Children, Families, Communities, and Cultures 

Are you interested in bringing one of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center’s internationally sought-after experts to your organization or community? Our faculty are available for keynotes, plenaries, and workshops, in person or virtually. Keynotes and plenaries are typically 1 to 1 ½ hours long, and workshops can be scheduled for half-day or full-day sessions as needed.

If you work with newborns, babies, young children, or teens, and their families, contact Suzanne Otcasek to find out how you can bring one of our speakers to work with your group on areas such as:

Meet Our Faculty

Eurnestine Brown, PhD

Dr. Eurnestine Brown brings a wealth of experience to her roles as Program Director and the first Director of Relational Equity and Belonging at BTC and as the Director of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Access in the Division of Developmental Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. She leads our efforts to become an anti-racist and inclusive Center/Division that promotes sustainable excellence by creating an organizational culture that is committed to equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging. As a developmental psychologist with 25+ years of experience, she is dedicated to improving the lives of birthing people, families, infants, toddlers, and children — especially those who are racially and historically marginalized. She moderates BTC’s Parenting While Black, Family-to-Family Real Talk Series. She has extensive experience in research design, implementation, analysis, and evaluation, and all aspects of data collection, observation, and coding with infants, children, and families. She has consulted for nonprofit agencies, school districts, and child and adolescent clinics across the United States. She is a former Early Head Start/Head Start Program Director. She is the co-editor of African-American Women: An Ecological Perspective and has published papers in journals such as Developmental Psychology and Development and Psychopathology. Dr. Brown is a Board Member for Infant Massage USA.

Sampling of Dr. Brown’s recent talks:

Jayne Singer, PhD

Jayne Singer, Ph.D., IECMH-E®, is the Director of Developmental and Relational Health at BTC, Senior Attending Psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Singer is a clinical psychologist with over 40 years of experience in hospital, school, and community-based settings. At BCH, she provides evaluation and treatment for families and children with medical, developmental, emotional, behavioral, and familial challenges, including trauma. She is Past President of the Massachusetts Association for Infant Mental Health. At BCH, she co-launched an early detection of autism program and the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program. An International Facilitator of the Brazelton Touchpoints Approach and the Newborn Behavioral Observations system, Dr. Singer spearheaded BTC’s Early Care and Education Initiative as an adaptation of the Touchpoints Approach to promote social-emotional health and strong provider-parent partnerships in early education. BTC’s Early Childhood Initiative became a strong foundation for its Tribal Touchpoints Initiative as well as the 2010–20 Office of Head Start National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement. She also created adaptations of the Touchpoints Approach for families living with children with developmental challenges, for families living in the context of substance use disorder recovery, and for mental health practitioners. She is the primary author of the Touchpoints in Early Care and Education Reference Guide and the Touchpoints in Reflective Practice guides for practitioners and mentors. Dr. Singer’s expertise is reflected in her array of speaking engagements for professionals and parent audiences on topics including child development, trauma, neurodevelopmental disorders, early relational health, family engagement, and infant mental health and clinical practice.

Sampling of Dr. Singer’s recent talks:

Joshua Sparrow, MD

Joshua Sparrow, M.D., DFAACP, is executive director of BTC in the Division of Developmental Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he also holds an appointment in the Department of Psychiatry, and is associate professor part time at Harvard Medical School. For most of the 1990s, Dr. Sparrow worked with children hospitalized for severe psychiatric disturbances often associated with physical and sexual abuse, for developmental delays aggravated by social and economic deprivation and environmental neurotoxins, and for behavioral disturbances and emotional distress resulting from the impact of systemic racism on children’s families, schools, communities, identity development, and opportunities. These experiences prompted his interest in the work he has undertaken at BTC since 1999 on the social determinants of health, early relational and mental health; community-based learning and mobilization for prevention and health promotion; and professional, organizational, and systems learning, unlearning, and change.

Sampling of Dr. Sparrow’s recent talks: