The Yale Child Study Center welcomes new community members on an on-going basis, and all new faculty, staff, and trainees are invited to share bios and photos upon joining the YCSC. A belated welcome is extended to Abhiram Natu, PhD, who joined the Vaccarino Lab as a postdoctoral associate in early December, in addition to Elizabeth Hentschel, MSc, PhD who joined in early January, and a more recent addition, Guilherme Pimenta Roncete. Learn more about some of the new community members who have submitted bios below.
Elizabeth Hentschel, MSc, PhD: As a postdoctoral fellow at the YCSC, Hentschel works collaboratively among the Yale School of Medicine, the Free University of Berlin, and Save the Children on the cross-cultural validation of The Remote Assessment of Learning (ReAL) in the occupied Palestinian territories of Mozambique, El Salvador, the Philippines, Cambodia, Sudan, and Niger. She has worked on maternal and child health-related research projects in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Vietnam, India, and Pakistan. With a specific focus on ECD in low- and middle-income contexts (LMICs), she utilizes both quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate and develop techniques to better understand measurement pathways that influence children’s early development. Most recently, she has consulted for the World Bank’s Early Childhood Development team and has also consulted for the World Health Organization and UNICEF. She is interested in psychometric measurement, program evaluation, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Guilherme Pimenta Roncete: Having recently joined the YCSC as a postgraduate fellow in the Bloch Lab, Roncete is currently a medical student at University of São Paulo, Brazil. His primary research interests include Suicidal Behavior Disorders, Nonsuicidal Self-Injury, and conducting meta-analyses.