Ad Hoc Reviewer for Journals

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Reviewer of grant applications.

Australian Research Council

BSF (United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation)

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), UK

Canada Research Chairs Program

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Collaborative Health Research Partnerships (CHRP): a joint initiative between CIHR and NSERC

Department of Health and Human Services, State of Louisiana

Developmental Sciences Program, NSF

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Training and Development Board (the UK's largest organization for funding research on economic and social issues)

German Israeli Foundation (GIF) for Scientific Research and Development

Grand Challenges Canada – Saving Brains program

Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space

Israel Science Foundation (ISF)

Medical Research Council (MRC) Neurosciences Board

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

National Science Foundation

Nuffield Foundation (UK): a charitable trust established in 1943 by William Morris, Lord Nuffield, the founder of Morris Motors

Ontario Mental Health Foundation

Ontario Ministry of Health

Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, Royal Society Te Aparangi, New Zealand

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Swiss National Science Foundation

Telethon Fondazione (Italy)

William T. Grant Foundation (USA)

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Consultant.

• Consultant (2023 – present), member of the OECD Schools + Informal Expert Consultation – a review exercise of existing evidence on pedagogy with the goal of illuminating common areas of need for policy and practice, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• Consultant (2023 – present), member of a focus group discussing the legacy/impact of the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) on children’s health in BC. It is part of a Legacy project that Robert Armstrong, BC Children's Hospital, is spearheading.
• Consultant (2022 – present), grant application (NIMH R61-R33,) "Preventing obsessive-compulsive disorder in children at high risk with real-time MEG Neurofeedback" PI: Kristina Rewin Ciesielski, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Univ.
• Consultant and advisor (2022 – 2024), an R21 Project, "Development of an assessment of Executive Function for Infants and Toddlers (EFIT).”, PI: Susanne W. Duvall, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
• Expert Consultant/Reviewer (2020), Reviewed chapters of a new textbook, Fundamentals of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, by Heather Bortfeld & Silvia Bunge, to be published by Cambridge University Press
• Consultant (2019), provide expert advice on children’s early writing skills questionnaire for the Early Childhood Longitudinal Program–K:2023 of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
• Advisory Board Member (2016 - present) to the non-profit "Insight: Independent Interview-Based Journal", Langley, BC.
• Member, Panel of Experts (2016  – 2017), “Future research directions to elucidate the causal effects of physical activity (PA) on cognitive and academic performance in children: A survey of experts,” Dept. of Public Health, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, NL.
• Advisor to Government on how to reform early childhood practices and early education (2014 - present ), Minsterio de Desarrollo e Inclusión Social, Péru
• Advisor to Government on how to reform early childhood practices and early education (2014 - present ), IDEA Institute, Ecuador
• Advisor to Government on how to reform early childhood practices and early education (2014 - present ), Ministry of Education, Chile
• Advisor to Government on how to reform early childhood practices and early education (2014 - present ), Early Childhood Education Department, Indonesia
• Advisor to Department of Education (2012 - present ), State of Maryland.
• Advisor to Department of Education (2012 - present), State of Arizona.
• Advisor to Department of Early Education (2012 - present), Washington State.
• Consultant (2013) on small advisory group for the Bezos Family Foundation.
• Consultant Researcher (2012) for a grant application by Alessandra Gotuzo Seabra, Graduate Program, Developmental Disorders Universidade Mackenzie São Paulo, Brazil, to assess and improve EFs in Brazilian school children.
• Reviewer (2011) for the letter of intent stage for the Grand Challenges Canada – Saving Brains program, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
• Expert consultant / reviewer, new edition (2011) of Children by John Santrock
• Consultant & Collaborator (2010 – present). NSF grant proposal, project entitled, “The Effect of Environment on Neural Development of the Prefrontal Cortex: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Kindergarten Intervention.” PI: John Gabrieli, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  Consultant (2009 – present). NSF project & EAGER grant proposal, project entitled, “Math and Science Achievement Gaps of Minority and Disadvantaged Students: The Role of Developmental and Environmental Influences from Nine Months to 8th Grade,” PI: David Grissmer, Center for the Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
• Consultant (2009 – present). NIDA project entitled, “A School-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Urban Youth”, PI: Tamar Mendelson, Dept. of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
• Consultant (2009 – 2014). NIMH R21 MH085898-01 project entitled, “Training Executive, Attention, and Motor Skills (TEAMS): Preliminary Studies,” PI Jeffrey Halperin, Queens College, NY
• Consultant (2005- Present). NIH Program Project Grant on arousal-mediated attention in infants and young children, PI: Judith Gardner, NYS Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, NY
• Consultant, NIH application to study whether children of mothers with lupus display abnormalities of cortical function, PI: Gail Ross, Assoc. Prof., Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell
• Consultant, NIH Program Project application, “Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Developmental Nicotine Exposure,” PI: Leslie Jacobson, MD, Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine
• Consultant (2002 - present). NIH application on HPA & PFC functioning in foster children, PI: Mary Dozier, Dept. of Psychology, University of Delaware
  Consultant (2000 - present). NIH R01 DA-06025 on prenatal cocaine exposure in 425 middle-school-aged children followed longitudinally since birth, PI: Linda Mayes, Yale Univ. Sch of Medicine
• Consultant (1997-2001). 3 NIH grants on Autism: PIs: Geraldine Dawson, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Washington; Patricia Rodier, Dept. of Obstetrics-Gynecology, Univ. of Rochester Medical Center; Helen Tager-Flusberg, Dept. of Behavioral Sciences, Shriver Center
• Consultant (1996-2000). NIH grant on Fragile X, awarded to Michelle Mazzocco, Behavioral Neurogenetics and Neuroimaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University
• Consultant (1996-2000). NIH grant on the effect of PCB exposure on cognitive development, awarded to Joseph and Sandra Jacobson, Dept. of Psychology, Wayne State University

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