Our Approach

Our approach is grounded in four core strategies aimed at making science accessible and actionable for policymakers, advocates, community leaders, and others whose work and decision-making are critical for supporting healthy development during pregnancy and the earliest years.  

We support multidisciplinary science synthesis led by our scientific councils, drawing on experts from a range of disciplines and organizations who work together to integrate the ever-expanding knowledge base related to the many ways that experiences and exposures in children’s developmental environments shape their developing biological systems. 

We leverage evidence-based framing and communications strategies to connect with a variety of audiences around the key concepts and insights that emerge from the rigorous science synthesis work of our councils in ways that are clear, compelling, and solution-oriented.  

We build on this work to design learning experiences tailored to the needs, challenges, and opportunities of key stakeholders who seek to bring science together with lived experience in implementing policies and programs that support healthy development. 

Across all these efforts, we aim to put our equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging (EDIB) values into action, ensuring we incorporate a variety of perspectives and sources of knowledge alongside what we know from science.