I am a Professor of Global Child Health and an honorary consultant in Public Health. I am director of the UCL Centre for the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents.

I qualified from the University of Manchester and then worked in clinical paediatrics in the UK and New Zealand. After completing a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, I worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres as a paediatrician in Pakistan, South Sudan and Myanmar.

I the director and founder of the UCL Race & Health group and am chair of the Lancet Commission on Racism and Child Health. I was chair of ICHG, a special interest group of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, a commissioner and steering group member of the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health and led the Lancet series on 'racism, xenophobia, discrimination and health'.

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This website has more of my creative stuff. For my UCL academic page click here.

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