Kenn Harris previously served as vice president for engagement and community partnerships at the National Institute for Children’s Health Quality in Boston, MA and prior to that as vice president for community engagement and director and principal investigator of the New Haven Healthy Start program at The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven in New Haven, CT.
Kenn worked with the Boston Healthy Start Initiative in Boston, MA, one of the original federal Healthy Start projects in 1991. There he established and maintained the Community Consortium and helped create the Father-Friendly Initiative. Kenn is a past president of the National Healthy Start Association and helped establish the Association’s Dads Matter Initiative: Where Dads Matter, Washington, DC. He is co-creator of the Core Adaptive Model for Fatherhood (CAM©), an evidenced-informed model for fatherhood/male involvement programs.
Kenn is a national expert in the field of maternal and child health, public health, fatherhood/ male involvement and community engagement. He remains passionate about women’s health, children, fathers and families as well as the health and well-being of the communities in which they live, learn, play and pray.
