Publications
“A Credible List”: Recommendations for the Secretary-General’s 2020 Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict. New York City: Watch List on Children in Armed Conflict, 2020.
Defenceless: The impact of the Israeli military detention system on Palestinian children. Save the Children, 2020.
Early Childhood Development in the Global South." Journal of the British Academy. 8.S2 (2020).
" Early Childhood Services for Young Refugee Children: Cross-Country Analysis. Moving Minds Alliance, 2020.
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).
"ECPC global call to action in response to COVID-19 for children in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Early Childhood Peace Consortium (ECPC), 2020.
Effects of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic on Early Childhood Development: Short- and Long-Term Risks and Mitigating Program and Policy Actions." The Journal of Pediatrics (2020).
"Effects of the Mother−Child Education Program on parenting stress and disciplinary practices among refugee and other marginalized communities in Lebanon: A pilot randomized controlled trial." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (2020).
"Emergency Child Care: Issues to Consider. Early Childhood Workforce Initiative, 2020.
Engaging fathers of young children in low-income families to improve child and family outcomes: A preventive intervention perspective." Handbook of fathers and child development: Prenatal to preschool. Springer, 2020. 627-638.
Enhancing Access to Services for Migrants in the Context of COVID-19 Preparedness, Prevention, and Response and Beyond. United Nations Network on Migration, 2020.
Family-friendly policies and other good workplace practices in the context of COVID-19: Key steps employers can take. UNICEF, 2020.
Framework for reopening schools. UNICEF, 2020.
A future for the world's children? A WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission." The Lancet (2020).
" A generation to protect: Monitoring violence, exploitation and abuse of children within the SDG framework. UNICEF, 2020.
Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Report of the Secretary-General. United Nations, 2020.
Global leaders unite to ensure everyone everywhere can access new vaccines, tests and treatments for COVID-19. World Health Organization (WHO), 2020.
Guidance for the health sector to partner with parents and families for early childhood development." The Lancet. 395.10226 (2020): 766-768.
" How to Create Screen-Life Balance When Life Has Shifted to Screens. New York City: New York Times, 2020.
Implementing the Global Compact on Refugees for Children. Examples of Child-focused work. Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts, 2020.
Improving mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in humanitarian settings: reflections on research funded through R2HCAbstract." Conflict and Health. 14.1 (2020).
"Improving the mental health of abandoned children: Experiences from a global online intervention." American Psychologist. 75.9 (2020): 1376-1388.
" It’s Okay to Be a Different Kind of Parent During the Pandemic. The Atlantic, 2020.
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for tackling the climate crisis. From uniting behind the science to the power of small actions. UNICEF, 2020.
Masculinities and COVID-19: Making the Connections. Promundo, 2020.
Maternal perceptions of father involvement among refugee and disadvantaged families in Beirut, Lebanon." PLOS ONE. 15.3 (2020): e0229670.
"My Hero is You, Storybook for Children on COVID-19 (available in 24 languages). Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2020.
Non-formal Education for Adolescents and Youth in Crisis and Conflict Contexts: a Proposed Taxonomy (Background Paper). e Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE, 2020.
Nurturing care for children living in humanitarian settings. Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development, 2020.
Parenting in a pandemic. BBC Parentland, 2020.
Pathways to a more peaceful and sustainable world: The transformative power of children in families." Development and Psychopathology (2020): 1-12.
"Peace Psychology Book SeriesChildren and Peace. Eds. Nikola Balvin, and Daniel J. Christie. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.
A Pilot Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting in Refugees from Syria in Lebanon and Jordan." Frontiers in Psychiatry. 11 (2020).
" Podcast Children at Heart | Caring for every child in a time of COVID-19. South Africa: UNICEF, 2020.
Podcast Children at Heart | Mental health, children & COVID-19. South Africa: UNICEF, 2020.
Podcast Children at Heart | Parenting under lockdown. South Africa: UNICEF, 2020.
Podcast Children at Heart | Protecting children's rights during a lockdown. South Africa: UNICEF , 2020.
Policy Brief: COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health. New York City: United Nations, 2020.
Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on children. New York City: United Nations, 2020.
Promoting parent-child relationships and preventing violence via home-visiting: a pre-post cluster randomised trial among Rwandan families linked to social protection programmesAbstractBackgroundMethodsResultsConclusionsTrial registration." BMC Public Health. 20.1 (2020).
"Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early-Childhood Program." Journal of Political Economy (2020): 000.
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