News 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