Publications
"Impact of a Social-emotional Skills-Building Program (Pisotón) on Early Development of Children in Colombia: A Pilot Effectiveness Study." International Journal of Educational Research. 111 (2022): 101898.
"Identifying and Minimizing Errors in the Measurement of Early Childhood Development: Lessons Learned from the Cognitive Testing of the ECDI2030." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18.22 (2021): 12181.
The Impacts of Tutoring Informed by Social-Emotional Learning: An Analysis Across Crisis Contexts. International Rescue Committee (IRC), 2021.
"International migration of unaccompanied minors: trends, health risks, and legal protection." The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. 5.12 (2021): 882-895.
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.
The impact of racism on child and adolescent health. Pediatrics. American Academy of Pediatrics, 2019.
"Implementation Evaluation of the Mother‐Child Education Program Among Refugee and Other Vulnerable Communities in Lebanon." New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development (2019).
"Infant Language Production and Parenting Skills: A Randomized Controlled Trial." Behavior Therapy. 50.3 (2019): 544-557.
"Inflammation: A Proposed Intermediary Between Maternal Stress and Offspring Neuropsychiatric Risk." Biological psychiatry. 85 (2019): 97-106.
Intergenerational and intragenerational externalities of the Perry Preschool Project. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019.
"The Interplay Between Nutrition and Stress in Pregnancy: Implications for Fetal Programming of Brain Development." Biological psychiatry. 85 (2019): 135-149.
IOM manual on community-based mental health and psychosocial support in emergencies and displacement. Geneva, Switzerland: nternational Organization for Migration, 2019.
I am a child! Four steps for protecting children’s rights in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and in the Global Compact on Refugees. NGO Committee on Migration, 2018.
"Identifying the roles of fathers in post-war northern Uganda: Groundwork for a parenting intervention." African Studies. 77.4 (2018): 526-548.
"Impact of childhood abuse on suicide-related behavior: Analysis using marginal structural models." Journal of affective disorders. 234 (2018): 224-230.
"Implementation research for early childhood development programming in humanitarian contexts." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1419.1 (2018): 90-101.
The Importance of Early Childhood Education in an Age of Global Disruption. Global Ed Leadership, 2018.
"Insecurity, distress and mental health: experimental and randomized controlled trials of a psychosocial intervention for youth affected by the Syrian crisis." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 59 (2018): 523-541.
"Integrating Early Child Development and Violence Prevention Programs: A Systematic Review." New directions for child and adolescent development. 2018 (2018): 27-54.
"Integrating Early Child Development and violence prevention programs: A systematic review." New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2018 (2018): 27-54.
"Investment in child and adolescent health and development: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition." Lancet. 391 (2018): 687-699.
"The impact of a family skills training intervention among Burmese migrant families in Thailand: A randomized controlled trial." PLoS One. 12 (2017): e0172611.
"Improving Mental Health Outcomes of Burmese Migrant and Displaced Children in Thailand: a Community-Based Randomized Controlled Trial of a Parenting and Family Skills Intervention." Prev Sci. 18 (2017): 793-803.
Indicators framework for peacebuilding, education and social cohesion. Boston, MA: Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and UNICEF, 2017.
"Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development." Lancet. 389 (2017): 103-118.
"Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development." Lancet (London, England). 389 (2017): 103-118.
INEE Background Paper on Psychosocial Support and Social and Emotional Learning for Children and Youth in Emergency Settings. New York, 2016.
"Intergenerational Long-Term Effects of Preschool - Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model." J Econom. 191 (2016): 164-175.
"Intergenerational Long-Term Effects of Preschool - Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model." Journal of econometrics. 191 (2016): 164-175.
Investing in Young Children Globally for Peaceful Societies: Proceedings of a Joint Workshop. Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally (iYCG), UNICEF, King Abdulla Bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, 2016.
"Identifying Priorities for Mental Health Interventions in War-Affected Youth: A Longitudinal Study." Pediatrics. 136 (2015): e344-50.
"Improving outcomes for caregivers through treatment of young people affected by war: a randomized controlled trial in Sierra Leone." Bull World Health Organ. 93 (2015): 834-41.
The Integration of Education and Peacebuilding: A Review of the Literature. UNICEFAmsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of AmsterdamCentre for International Education, University of SussexUNESCO Centre at Ulster University, 2015.
The Integration of Education and Peacebuilding: Synthesis Report on Findings from Myanmar, Pakistan, South Africa and Uganda. UNICEFAmsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of AmsterdamCentre for International Education, University of SussexUNESCO Centre at Ulster University, 2015.
"The intergenerational effect of war." JAMA Psychiatry. 72 (2015): 199-200.
"The intergenerational impact of war: longitudinal relationships between caregiver and child mental health in postconflict Sierra Leone." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 56 (2015): 1101-7.
"Intractable Conflicts: Socio-Psychological Foundations and Dynamics." Terror Polit Violenc. 27 (2015): 791-792.
Investment in Equity and Peacebuilding: South Africa Case Study. Washington, DC: FHI 360 Education Policy and Data Center, 2015.
Investment in Equity and Peacebuilding: Uganda Case Study. Washington, DC: FHI 360 Education Policy and Data Center, 2015.
"Implication of sperm RNAs in transgenerational inheritance of the effects of early trauma in mice." Nat. Neurosci.. 17.5 (2014): 667-9.
"Individual differences underlying susceptibility to addiction: Role for the endogenous oxytocin system." Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav.. 119 (2014): 22-38.
Integrating Early Childhood Development and Violence Prevention. New York: Colombia University, 2014.
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