Publications
Exploring Early Childhood Care and Education Levers to Improve Population Health. Ed. Theresa M. Wizemann. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2019.
"Evaluation of free to grow: head start partnerships to promote substance-free communities." Eval Rev. 35.2 (2011): 153-88.
Spirals of Inequality. Women's Budget Group, 2020.
Pathways for peace : inclusive approaches to preventing violent conflict. Washington, D.C.: World Bank,, 2018.
Preventing violence: Evaluation outcomes of parenting programs. World Health Organization, 2013.
Care for child development: Improving the care for young children. World Health Organization, 2012.
Nurturing care for early childhood development: A framework for helping children survive and thrive to transform health and human potential. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2018.
Global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (2016 -2030): 2018 monitoring report. World Health Organization, 2018.
"Homeless street children in Nepal: use of allostatic load to assess the burden of childhood adversity." Dev Psychopathol. 20 (2008): 233-55.
"A bioecocultural approach to supporting adolescent mothers and their young children in conflict-affected contexts." Development and Psychopathology (2021): 1-13.
Gender-responsive pedagogy in early childhood education: A toolkit for teachers and school leaders. Nairobi, Kenya: Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), 2019.
"Access to institutional resources as a measure of social exclusion: relations with family process and cognitive development in the context of immigration." New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2008 (2008): 63-86.
"Commentary: New Directions in Developmentally Informed Intervention Research for Vulnerable Populations." Child Dev. 88 (2017): 459-465.
"The effects of poverty on the mental, emotional, and behavioral health of children and youth: implications for prevention." Am Psychol. 67 (2012): 272-84.
"Advancing Methods in Research on Asian American Children and Youth." Child Dev. 87 (2016): 1033-50.
"Welfare dynamics, support services, mothers' earnings, and child cognitive development: implications for contemporary welfare reform." Child Dev. 70 (1999): 779-801.
"Experimental impacts of a teacher professional development program in Chile on preschool classroom quality and child outcomes." Dev Psychol. 51 (2015): 309-22.
"Long-term effects of early childhood programs on social outcomes and delinquency." Future Child. 5 (1995): 51-75.
"Child development and public policy: toward a dynamic systems perspective." Child Dev. 72 (2001): 1887-903.
"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).
"Effectiveness of a youth-led early childhood care and education programme in rural Pakistan: A cluster-randomised controlled trial." PloS one. 13 (2018): e0208335.
ANYAS special Issue | Implementation research and practice for early childhood development 2018i., 2018.
"Review of implementation processes for integrated nutrition and psychosocial stimulation interventions." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1308 (2014): 33-45.
"Implementation research for early childhood development programming in humanitarian contexts." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1419.1 (2018): 90-101.
"Measuring the cost of investing in early childhood interventions and applications of a standardized costing tool." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1419.1 (2018): 74-89.
LEAPS: a strategy to benefit young children and youth. Early Childhood Matters, .2019. Hague, The Netherlands: Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2019.
A Skeptics View." Culture and Negotiation: The Resolution of Water Disputes. Eds. G. Faure, and J. Rubin. London: Sage Publications, 1993.
State of Babies Yearbook: 2021 (US). Zero to Three, 2021.
"Epigenetics and the environmental regulation of the genome and its function." Annu Rev Psychol. 61 (2010): 439-66, C1-3.
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