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Therese Hesketh MBChB, MSc, MRCPCH, MFPHM, PhD
Professor in Global Health
UCL Centre for International Health and Development
Institute of Child Health
30 Guilford Street
London WC1N 1EH
t: +44 (0)207 905 2122
f: +44 (0)207 404 2062
t.hesketh@ucl.ac.uk
Expertise: The impact of difficult circumstances on the
health and psychosocial well-being of children; reproductive health,
demographic change and health systems in China.
Biography: Trained in paediatrics in Bristol and London,
Therese has worked with NGOs and UN organisations in China, Indonesia,
Cambodia and Laos as a clinical teacher and manager of health
programmes. These included the development of the first Neonatal and
Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in China and the first neonatal outreach
programme for the training of doctors and nurses. Since joining CIHD she
has developed a number of research projects in China in adolescent and
reproductive health. She has explored the epidemiology of hepatitis B
and C, STIs and HIV, the vertical transmission of infection and the
impact of population policy on the health of women and children in
China.
