June 2020

The Brain Architects Podcast: COVID-19 Special Edition: A Different World

“In this first episode from a special COVID-19 series of The Brain Architects podcast, Center Director Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D. discusses the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of early childhood development. He offers advice to help ensure that adults and the children they care for don’t experience the long-term effects of stress, and explains how society can work together to continue to support healthy development.”

Early childhood educators: Supporting professionalism during COVID-19

Nobody imagined that childhood educators would have to leave their kindergartens and daycare centers to perform their demanding and complex profession from home, without any in-person interaction with children and their families. This sudden change asks early childhood educators to shift from being the greatest facilitator of a child’s learning and development in the indoor or outdoor kindergarten environment, to being the greatest supporter of parents to ensure continuity in their child’s learning and development while at home. Learn more …(link is external)
 

Emergency Child Care: Issues to Consider

“The demand for child care in low in middle income countries has been growing over the last few years. Fueled by the increasing number of working women and migration from rural areas to urban centers, the drumbeat for child care support around the world has grown. The recent pandemic has raised new and complicated pressures on a child care system that was already under-resourced and under-recognized in many countries.”
 

PMNCH compendium of COVID-19 related partner resources on women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health

“In such times, it is essential to stay informed of the latest guidance and resources around COVID-19 and its effects on women, children an adolescent health, from credible sources. PMNCH has therefore developed the below compendium of resources that brings together the latest evidence-based information on women, children and adolescent health in the context of COVID-19.
 

Early estimates of the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

Roberton, Timothy, Emily D. Carter, Victoria B. Chou, Angela R. Stegmuller, Bianca D. Jackson, Yvonne Tam, Talata Sawadogo-Lewis, and Neff Walker. ”Early estimates of the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study.” The Lancet Global Health (2020).

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