Ep. 38 - Impacts of Early Childhood Center Closures due to COVID with Dr. Dana McCoy

We are thrilled to have Dr. Dana Charles McCoy join us again on Parenting Understood. In this episode, Dr. McCoy speaks with us about her recent research on the impacts of COVID on child development (emotional, social, and learning). In particular, she summarizes her and colleagues’ research focused on forecasting the long term consequences of closing early childhood centers on children’s development with special attention to children in low and middle income countries.Dr. McCoy is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Her work focuses on understanding the ways that poverty-related risk factors in children's home, school, and neighborhood environments affect the their cognitive and socioemotional development in early childhood. Her research looks at both domestic and international contexts.  To learn more about Dana and her research, please visit: https://seed.gse.harvard.edu/ or you can reach out to her via Twitter @DanaCMcCoy or [email protected]