Department of Women's and Children's Health

Our challenges

• Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics

  Research aimed at understanding what drives better child development and or influences risk of children with developmental disabilities across settings of adversity globally

• Childhood Inflammatory Disease

  With a focus on paediatric rheumatology and immunology, this programme links childhood diseases characterized by inflammation (beyond rheumatology) through the identification of shared and unique molecular mechanisms.

• Paediatric Respiratory Medicine

  Specialised research into childhood respiratory conditions including infections (RSV, COVID etc), asthma and cystic fibrosis

• Orthopaedics

  Trauma & Orthopaedic Trials for Children Collaborative, delivering a suite of randomised clinical trials which run internationally.

• Paediatric Nephrology

  The children's kidney workstream is focused on rare kidney diseases with projects performed locally, nationally, and internationally with priorities on age-inclusion, equitable access to treatments and improving the efficiency of the entire translational pathway.

• Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology

  Delivering all aspects of paediatric drug rand medicine related research from early phase to pharmacovigilance and pharmacogenomics, and the UKs only accredited training centre for clinicians.

• Paediatric Surgery

  Developing improved procedures and techniques in Paediatric Surgery, with a focus on Hirschsprung’s disease and tissue engineering.

• Neonatology

  Fostering the development and evaluation of multinational clinical research infrastructures.

• Global Women’s Health

  Research focussed on improving the experience, access, and outcomes for mothers giving birth in low resource settings across the world. Key programmes include preventing and managing infections and bleeding after childbirth, safe caesarean section, quality of care, and appropriate use of innovations and technology