Dr. Ruby Natale is a pediatric psychologist and a professor of clinical pediatrics at the Mailman Center for Child Development, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA. She holds a dual PhD/PsyD doctorate degree in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Ruby Natale also co-leads the University’s Community Wellness Interprofessional Collaborative with a mission to demonstrate, through solid research and scientific methods, the importance of working with young children from birth through age 5 to promote mental and physical wellness. Her work has made a transformative impact in establishing and sustaining community-based partnerships to promote positive development in young children in low-income, underserved communities. Dr. Ruby Natale’s research interests include early childhood development, preschool expulsion, obesity prevention, and community-based participatory research.