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Irene Caselli

Early childhood journalist and guest editor

About Irene

Irene Caselli is a multimedia reporter and writer, with over 15 years’ experience in radio, television and print, now focusing on early childhood, reproductive rights and carers. She is also a senior advisor for the Early Childhood Global Reporting Initiative at the Dart Center. For a decade, Caselli was a foreign correspondent in Latin America, reporting for the BBC, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New York Times and others. In January 2021 she launched her own newsletter, The First 1,000 Days, where she writes about the foundational period of our lives that is too often overlooked.

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Stories by Irene

  • Policy & Practice

“Changing people, it’s a process”

An executive education programme builds behavioural science capacity for early childhood initiatives: An interview with Étienne Bressoud and Loïc Sadoulet

  • Policy & Practice

“Government is paying attention to this issue”

How Argentina’s behavioural science unit influences policy: An interview with Iván Budassi

  • Health & Wellbeing

“A child’s development needs continuous engagement”

A national behaviour change campaign in India sets out to foster more nurturing care: An interview with Sumita Ghosh

  • Parenthood & Caregiving

“We know what it means to be parents today, it is not easy”

Hop! Media helps caregivers fill daily routines with pleasure not pressure: An interview with Alona Abt

  • Health & Wellbeing

“Our aim is to get healthcare professionals to see themselves as parent coaches”

A pilot helping doctors and nurses to connect better with parents: An interview with Yvonne Schönbeck

  • Childhood & Development

“Behavioural interventions seem so simple when you read the books”

Why we need more behavioural science in the Global South: An interview with Neela Saldanha

  • Parenthood & Caregiving

Can a nudge make us all better caregivers?

Even as an early childhood journalist, behavioural science was not on my radar

Birth of a Parent Podcast

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