The Rural Education and Child Health project (China REACH) is a groundbreaking early childhood randomized control trial designed to evaluate the joint impact of China’s Children Nutrition Improvement Project in Poverty-stricken Areas (CNNIP) and the Jamaica Parenting and Psychosocial Stimulation Curriculum. Improved developmental outcomes for rural children anticipated by ChinaREACH—including health, cognitive and social-emotional skills—will serve to inform China’s national and provincial government and encourage a new National Health and Parenting policy. Goals of this project include the full scale up of national combined parenting and nutrition programs throughout rural China, with policy adaptation to follow.
I jointly lead the research of the China REACH program and the current and future research aims are as follows:
Research Aims
The mechanism of home visiting program promoting child skill development
Effective scaled-up intervention
The understanding learning process using AI technology
Nature v.s. Nurture