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Reach Out and Read is On the Air

Engaging conversations with experts in childhood health and literacy.

An award-winning podcast centered on the belief that children’s books build better brains, better family relationships, and happier, healthier children and societies. Join us as host Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, a pediatrician with a children’s librarianship degree dives into a wealth of varied early childhood health and literacy topics with expert guests examining the many facets of supporting the parent-child relationship as key to early success.

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“The Science Sessions: Learning from Families About What Inspires and Enables Them to Share Books Together” Feb. 6, 2025

Dr. Clare Crosh and Dr. Diogo Anyigbo join us to talk about what they have learned from families about how they view and practice shared reading. The pair share examples about how those conversations can inform messaging and resources to inspire and enable families to sing, tell stories, and share books with their young children. 

  • Dr. Clare Crosh

    Dr. Clare Crosh is a general pediatrician at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn Illinois. She completed a 3-year general academic fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s where her research was focused on early childhood literacy (0 to 6 months) and how to engage parents to read to their infants. During this time, she published a children’s book based on the research they completed. Dr. Crosh’s current research surrounds health equity and well child visits and how to get children healthy and ready to learn by the time they enter kindergarten. Dr. Crosh is a mother to 3 wonderful daughters and in her spare time sits on the Reach Out and Read- IL board. (C. Crosh)

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  • Dr. Diogo Anyigbo

    Chidiogo “Diogo” Anyigbo, MD, MPH, FAAP is a general pediatrician and health services researcher at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Anyigbo is a KL2 scholar whose research focuses on mitigating adverse childhood experiences and unmet social needs (such as food insecurity and access to public nutrition programs) that limit a caregiver’s capacity to foster safe, stable, and nurturing relationships essential for their child’s overall social-emotional functioning. Dr. Anyigbo received her undergraduate, medical, and public health degrees from Emory University. She completed her residency and general academic pediatrics fellowship at Children’s National Hospital in Washington D.C. The safe, stable, and nurturing relationship her mother provided which buffered childhood stressors is the greatest inspiration for her work. (D. Anyigbo)

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Research shows reading physical books together brings the strongest benefits to children. That’s why we’re happy to have Boise Paper – a responsible paper manufacturer – as founding sponsor of this podcast. Through their Paper with Purpose promise, Boise Paper looks for ways to make a difference in local communities. Thank you to Boise Paper for investing in our Reach Out and Read community.

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Meet the Host

To the best of our knowledge, there is only one pediatrician anywhere who got a master’s in library science in the middle of his medical training, all to learn more about children’s literature. That is our host, Dr. Dipesh Navsaria. A practicing pediatrician in Wisconsin, Dr. Navsaria is the Medical Director of Reach Out and Read Wisconsin, Chair of the Early Literacy Subcommittee of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Early Childhood, and many other initiatives involving the psychosocial world of children, their families, and society, from policy to parenting support. A professor of pediatrics and of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, he lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife, two children, two cats, a dog, and backyard chickens. He has a deep-seated dependence on wearing bowties, of which he owns far too many…but all of which he can tie without a mirror, in under a minute!

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