In the News | Overview
Television/documentary interviews & lab filming
- Teaching anti-vax parents to trust science and the MMR vaccine
CBS Sunday Morning, May 12, 2019 - What impact could family separation have on children’s health?
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, June 29, 2018 - Broken Places
PBS Documentary, June 28, 2018 - Could America Make a Return to Orphanages for Immigrant Children?
Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien, June 23, 2018 - Families Torn Apart
MSNBC Live, June 19, 2018 - Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School Charles Nelson joins us to discuss the physical effects children face when they are forcibly separated from their families.
CTV News Channel, June 19, 2018 - Study: Autism Can Now be Detected in 3-Month-Old Babies
NBC News Boston, May 16, 2018
Radio/podcast interviews
- The New Outlook for Autism Diagnosis
Breakthrough Podcast, June 8, 2022 - What are the impacts of childhood adversity?
The BOLD Podcast, May 16, 2022 - An Overlooked Consequence of COVID-19: The Hundreds of Orphans Left Behind
WBUR Here and Now, January 13, 2022 - Jeff Flake, Mojave Rattlesnakes, Pediatric Trauma
Top of the Mind Radio with Julie Rose, BYU Radio, January 24, 2019 - Long-Term Effects Feared for Children Separated at Border
Living Lab Radio on WCAI, June 25, 2018 - What Detention And Separation Mean For Kids' Mental Health
National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Saturday, June 23, 2018 - Science Of Family Separation And Trauma Suggests Long-Term Damage
New England Public Radio, June 21, 2018
News coverage (print & online news & magazines)
- Deprivation's Mark on the Brain
Harvard Magazine, January-February 2023 - They brought their sick baby to the hospital. Three days later, the state took their kids away
The Washington Post, December 7, 2022 - Losing a parent can derail teens' lives. A high school grief club aims to help
National Public Radio, July 24, 2022 - The Kids Who Lost Parents To Covid
New Yorker, July 13, 2022 - Special interview: Harvard professor Charles Nelson found out how important closeness is for development - "Children who have suffered a lack of love remain smaller"
Suomen Kuvalehti. July 3, 2022 - COVID Deaths Left Orphans: To Their Loss, Add Lifelong Health Risks
Scientific American, June 8, 2022 - The war is taking a toll on Ukraine's kids. Psychologists share how parents can help
NPR, March 22, 2022 - COVID Orphans—Over 200,000 U.S. Children Have Lost A Parent or Caregiver to the Pandemic
Newsweek, February 4, 2022 - Cash Aid to Poor Mothers Increases Brain Activity in Babies, Study Finds
New York Times, January 24, 2022 - More than a million children around the world may have been orphaned by the COVID-19 pandemic, study finds
USAtoday.com, July 20, 2021 - More than a million children around the world may have been orphaned by the COVID-19 pandemic, study finds
MSN.com, July 21, 2021 - Pregnant in a pandemic: How COVID-19 stress may affect growing babies
ABC News, August 2020. - 30 Years Ago Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact
The Atlantic, July 2020. - Finding Early Signs of Autism
National Geographic, May 2020 - How detention causes long-term harm to children
PBS, August 22, 2019 - The scientific effort to protect babies from trauma before it happens
Quartz, June 22, 2019 - National Academy of Medicine Elects 85 New Members
National Academy of Medicine, October 15, 2018 - The health impact of separating migrant children from parents
BBC News, June 19, 2018 - What separation from parents does to children: “The effect is catastrophic”
The Washington Post, June 18, 2018 - How to Turn Children Into Criminals
New York Times, May 30, 2018 - New autism research could predict whether children as young as 3 months old are at risk
Dayton Daily News, May 17, 2018