Dr. Franklin Moreno was lead-author on an article with Dr. Paul Boxer at Rutgers University (2025) titled Advancing a Transnational Ecological Systems Framework for Research on Exposure to Violence in the journal Developmental Review. The authors draw from multinational studies, research on exposure to community violence, Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model of human development, and policy between the United States and Central America. Utilizing Central America as a case study, they show how transnational policies of the US are distal processes that impact youth proximal experiences with violence and safety in Honduras. Dr. Moreno and Dr. Boxer propose a transnational ecological systems framework for advancing developmental theory and research on violence to expand from a within country application of ecological systems to a between country model to account for these transnational, distal processes.