As a member of the Community Advisory Board for the Clinical & Translational Science Institute, Eliana's Light was pleased to promote and attend this Science Cafe. Local researchers and members of the public from the Washington, DC area convened to discuss this topic. To view a blog and the PowerPoint presentations from it, please visit: https://blogs.gwu.edu/chipr/2017/11/20/from-placenta-to-preschool-the-developing-brain-and-what-communities-can-do-to-support-it/. To listen to the podcast, please visit: http://gwocpi.libsyn.com/from-placenta-to-preschool-the-developing-brain-and-what-communities-can-do-to-support-it. 

The Science Cafe is a casual forum for community members, medical researchers, and social scientists - anyone who is interested in health or medicine to street scholars. Each Café features a different health topic and a clinical researcher who will demystify what they do, how they do it, and why they think their work may help residents. Community members are encouraged to probe, debate, and share ideas that come from their own experiences in collaboration with medical researchers, social scientists, and community leaders who are thinking big about transforming health in Washington, DC.