Hiro Hotline
Listen to learn more about KJJ Research Prize 2025 Laureate Hirokazu Yoshikawa
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“The central theme of my career has been finding effective ways to create social impact and large-scale changes in human development research.”
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
The 2025 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize laureate, New York University Professor Hirokazu Yoshikawa, is a pioneer in demonstrating how policies and programs - from early childhood education to immigration - shape human development worldwide.
As a hotline counselor and then supervisor working at a national crisis hotline, he discovered a skill that would guide his career: active listening. Step into Hiro’s world and hear the voices of those who have been a part of his journey.
Supporting Childhood, Shaping Tomorrow
“We will now be able to explore how early caregiving experiences shape how children’s development unfolds.”
Alice Würmli
Changing Systems, Changing Lives
“Through a joint effort between the government and researchers, we developed a national model for measuring poverty that has now become part of the public policy agenda.”
Carolina Maldonado Carreño
Collaboration at Eye Level
”Children in the Rohingya camps are often cared for by older siblings or extended family members, not just their parents. We need to design support that reflects these realities.”
Hirokazu Yoshikawa