Della Hann

Della Marie Hann is an American psychologist and research administrator serving as the associate director for extramural research at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Early life and education Della Marie Hahn is from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. She completed a B.S. from Catawba College in 1981. In 1986, she earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology with an emphasis on issues of early child development from the University of Tennessee. Her dissertation was titled Factors that influence the quality of maternal care: a systemic conceptualization. Her doctoral advisor was . She held a postdoctoral fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation in the department of psychiatry at the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans. There, Hann participated in research related to early socio-emotional development in infants of adolescent mothers. In 2010, she was appointed deputy director of OER.

In 2015, Hann became the associate director for extramural research at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). She serves at the director of NICHD's principal advisor on extramural scientific and policy issues.

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