UNICEF Innocenti Podcasts

In the first of a two-part series, we sit down with Nikola Balvin, who served as the lead editor on the Adolescent Brain compendium we’ll be discussing today, to discuss the background of the publication, the symposium that preceded it, and emerging ideas in adolescent neuroscience research today. In part two of this series on, we’ll be speaking with Ron Dahl, a key contributor to the compendium f...

In this episode, we're discussing the Best of UNICEF Research 2017 – which highlights 12 of the year’s most innovative and ground-breaking research for children around the world. Kerry Albright, who oversees the Best of UNICEF Research competition each year, talks about what's new this year, how and why the winners were selected, and introduces two of our winning UNICEF researchers, Grace Agcaoili...

Our podcast with Nikola Balvin, Knowledge Management Specialist at UNICEF Innocenti, unpacks the recently launched Evidence Gap Map on adolescent well-being to look at what it is and how it's useful for researchers, policy makers, and programme managers around the world. The UNICEF Innocenti Evidence Gap Map report, titled “Bridging the gap to understand effective interventions for adolescent well...

In this episode, UNICEF Innocenti research and evaluation specialist on child protection, Alina Potts discusses how her experiences responding to crises in Syria and Lebanon inspired her recent blog titled “‘Nobody will answer you if you talk’: The case for research on trafficking in emergencies.” Alina is an expert on research examining the intersection between intimate partner violence and viole...

In this edition of the UNICEF Innocenti podcast, we talk to three experts about the 'cash plus' social protection programme for adolescents in Tanzania: Vicky Chuwa, former chief for HIV/AIDs at UNICEF Tanzania, now at UNICEF Botswana; Ulrike Gilbert, current HIV/AIDS chief at UNICEF Tanzania; and Tia Palermo, social policy specialist at UNICEF Innocenti. Adolescents represent the promise and pote...