Henning Tiemeier is a Professor of Social and Behavioral Science and the Sumner and Esther Feldberg Chair in Maternal and Child Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, where he directs the Harvard Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health. He received both his medical and sociological degrees from the University of Bonn, Germany, and his PhD from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands.Tiemeier is a psychiatric epidemiologist who studies child development in population-based cohort studies. His work has a focus on prenatal exposures such as maternal depression and substance use. Much of his work takes a neurodevelopmental approach and his group conducted large scale brain imaging studies in children and adolescents. Recent work shows how parenting and environmental risk factors relate to brain development in childhood and pre-adolescence.

Other studies highlight methodological problems in child and adolescent psychiatric research using multi-informant assessments. His multidisciplinary work combining epidemiology, genetics, brain imaging, and child development bridges historically separate disciplines and forms Population Neuroscience. He has conducted large scale population-based birth cohorts from fetal life onwards as well as follow-up studies of international adoptees with exposure to early life trauma and abuse.At the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, he mainly focusses on Population Neuroscience, he has received NIH funding to establish the Mississippi Delta Center of Excellence in Maternal Health to conduct observational studies and trials to improve maternal morbidity, and also works on a longitudinal study of children of incarcerated mothers. Tiemeier has received several honors among which the 2017 Dutch VICI prize, the 2019 Leon Eisenberg Award, and the 2023 Alzheimer Award.