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Professor, University of Montevideo
Academia
Uruguay
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Diana Vagelos Professor of Women's Mental Health
Academia & Health
USA
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Founder and Director, Center for Utilizing Behavioral Insights for Children (CUBIC)
Academia & Civil society
Kenya
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Executive Director, iACT
Civil society & Education
USA
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Co-Founder and Chief Exploration Officer, Kidogo
Civil society & Philanthropy
Kenya
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Founder curator and Director, Eye mama project
Arts & Health
UK
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Researcher specialising in Early Childhood Development and Nurturin Care programming
Academia & Civil society
Pakistan
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Director ZCD Architects
Cities
UK
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Environmental Designer
Academia & Cities
Israel
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Architect, Project Lead for Placemaking, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Cities & Health
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Early Childhood Matters 2026 Launch Series

Join in February for big ideas and practical takeaways that help people in their transition to parenthood. This event series will capture the urgent themes from our 2026 journal with diverse and intriguing perspectives on parent and child wellbeing.

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12, 19 & 26 February 2026
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Conversation Circle

Why do we expect parents to do it all alone?

This conversation brings together leading thinkers and changemakers from academia, psychology and philanthropy — Alicia Lieberman, Alison Gopnik, Karima Grant, and moderated by Elissa Strauss — each shaping how we understand and support parents and other caregivers.

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Early Childhood Matters 2025

Here you can watch the recorded launch of the 2025 issue and hear directly from contributors, each working in different settings and disciplines but towards the same goal: practical solutions that meaningfully support mothers, fathers and other caregivers, and the children they care for.

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Early Childhood Matters 2023

Here you can watch the recorded launch of the 2023 issue and hear directly from the authors whose stories on caring for caregivers, are also stories in which children and entire communities flourish.

What our readers say

Early Childhood Matters has a unique interdisciplinary approach—uniting policymakers, journalists, and academics— delivers rigorous insights through accessible and delightful storytelling. This clarity ensures child and parental well being research reaches everyone from ministers to teachers and parents alike in all parts of the world.
Florencia Lopez Boo, Director, Global TIES, NYU.
The diagnosis telling us that parenthood today is harder than it needs to be feels ubiquitous. Far less common is coverage of the multi-faceted prescriptions and solutions--the visions, plans, dreams, conversations, research and programs--that can heal this gaping wound. ECM is one of the rare places where we not only get a glimpse of what a brighter future for families could look like, but also a playbook on how to make that future a reality.
Elissa Strauss, Journalist and Author of When You Care, ECM 2025 Editor
Early Childhood Matters
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