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David Olds, PhD
Harriet Kitzman, PhD, RN, FAAN
DAvID OLDS, PHD
David Olds is currently a Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Public Health, and Nursing at the
University of Colorado Denver, where he directs the Prevention Research Center for Family and
Child Health. He has devoted his career to investigating methods of preventing health and
developmental problems in children and parents from low-income families. The primary focus
of his work has been on developing and testing in a series of randomized controlled trials a
program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses known as the Nurse Family Partnership
(NFP), which serves socially disadvantaged mothers bearing first children. Today, the program is
operating in over 380 counties, serving 23,000 families per year in the United States. Dr. Olds
is also working with governments in other societies to adapt and test the NFP in international
contexts. He is a member of the American Pediatrics Society, the Society for Prevention Research,
the American Public Health Association, the Society for Research in Child Development and the
Academy of Experimental Criminology, and has received numerous awards for his work, including
the Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievements in Health, the Lela Rowland Prevention
Award from the National Mental Health Association, the Presidential Award from the Society for
Prevention Research, the Nurse 21 Community Award from UCLA School of Nursing, the Child
Health and Welfare Award from the Colorado Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics,
the Brooke Visiting Professorship in Epidemiology from the Royal Society of Medicine and the
2008 Stockholm Prize in Criminology. Dr. Olds has been honored to present keynote lectures at
various conferences, including the CNO Nursing and Midwifery Conference in Belfast Northern
Ireland, the 17th Annual JaSPCAN Conference in Tsukuba, Japan and the Healthy for Life and
New Directions Mothers’ and Babies Conference in Brisbane, Australia. He obtained his B.A. from
Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. from Cornell University.
HARRIET KITzMAN, PHD, RN, FAAN
Harriet Kitzman is an authority on nurse home visitation for low income mothers and their infants. She
serves as Senior Associate Dean for Research and Director of the Center for Research Implementation
and Translation (CRIT) and is Professor of Nursing and Pediatrics. A member of the Executive
Committee of the Center for Translation Science Institute, she also directs its Center for Research
Implementation and Translation. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Rochester and
held the esteemed Loretta C. Ford Professorship during her 45 year service to the University.
Dr. Kitzman was a leader in the early nurse practitioner movement. She became prepared and
established practice and educational programs as a pediatric nurse practitioner. She led the
development of the first graduate nurse practitioner program at the University of Rochester in 1971.
In the late 1960s and 1970s she conducted randomized clinical trials of nurse practitioner practice
outcomes. She has presented the results of these studies at national meetings and published the
results in high impact journals. She is a well-known consultant on the developing nurse practitioner
role and its impact. As the first clinical chief/chair responsible for nursing services in the Medical
Center and nursing education and research in the School of Nursing, she has been among the key
drivers in the development of the School of Nursing’s Unification Model.
Since the early 1980s her research has been related to the effects of Nurse Home Visitation on
first time mothers and children. Focused on the economically disadvantaged, the intervention has
demonstrated a broad range of short- and long-term outcomes. This program of research has had
significant impact on both individual care and health care policy nationally and internationally
with broad program dissemination through the Nurse Family Partnership National Service Office.
The program is recognized as one of the American Academy of Nursing’s Edge-Runner Programs.
Based on an ecological perspective, the longitudinal data bases developed for the program’s
three randomized trials over a 30 year period with continuous grant support provide exceptional
opportunities to continue to learn about the mechanisms through which early care of mothers and
infants and their environments affect life course development of families and children.
Dr. Kitzman holds multiple awards and has served on a number national and local policy
committees including the Board of Children, Youth and Families of the American Academies of
Science/Institute of Medicine. She was a charter member of the NSCF study section of NINR.