Publications
Preventing violence: Evaluation outcomes of parenting programs. World Health Organization, 2013.
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.
Care for child development: Improving the care for young children. World Health Organization, 2012.
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.
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.
"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).
"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.
"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.
"Implementation research for early childhood development programming in humanitarian contexts." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1419.1 (2018): 90-101.
"ANYAS special Issue | Implementation research and practice for early childhood development 2018i., 2018.
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.
Effectiveness of a youth-led early childhood care and education programme in rural Pakistan: A cluster-randomised controlled trial." PloS one. 13 (2018): e0208335.
"Review of implementation processes for integrated nutrition and psychosocial stimulation interventions." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1308 (2014): 33-45.
" 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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