Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância - NCPI

The Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal is a member of the Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância (NCPI), along with six other organizations. The Harvard University Center on the Developing Child; the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS); the University of São Paulo Medical School; the Bernard van Leer Foundation; Insper; and Porticus Latin America. The aim of this coalition is to produce, provide and disseminate scientific content on development in Early Childhood.

To fulfill the objective of providing a bridge between the knowledge produced by the scientific community and society, the NCPI operates through six fronts: The Scientific Committee; the ‘Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisa Aplicada à Primeira Infância’ (‘Brazilian Center for Applied Research on Early Childhood’ / ‘CPAPI’); ‘iLab Primeira Infância’ (the ‘Early Childhood iLab’); the Science Award for Early Childhood; the Executive Leadership Program (ELP); and the International Symposium.

Below are a few highlights regarding the Scientific Committee, but you can find more information on the ELP and the Science Award for Early Childhood, the leading projects conducted by the NCPI in 2022, on pages 43 and 50

Scientific Committee

The NCPI’s Scientific Committee is composed of a group of researchers from different areas who analyze, produce and disseminate knowledge on infant development to decisionmakers in general.

Committed to an evidence-based approach, the Committee produces publications using accessible language and other content on issues that have an impact and influence on the development or classification of public policies that guarantee the wellbeing of children and their families, especially those who are most vulnerable.

In 2022, the group published two scientific papers, one on the vaccination of children against Covid-19, which has been downloaded more than one thousand times, and another addressing the risks and negative effects of home schooling on infant development, which has been downloaded 517 times. It has also produced new evidence-based working papers on the impacts of inequality on early childhood, violence against children, and public policies on early childhood, which are expected to be published in the first half of 2023.

The profile of the Committee has been altered recently, with three researchers leaving and two new ones joining (Márcia Machado and Lucimar Rosa Dias), which has increased the regional and racial diversity of the Committee.

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