MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health

How to find us

How to find us


MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health
UCL Institute of Child Health
30 Guilford Street
London, WC1N 1EH
Tel: +44 (0)20 7905 2362

Great Ormond Street Hospital

What we do

We teach and carry out research to improve children's health and wellbeing and to prevent, diagnose and treat conditions that might affect them in childhood or in later life.

We develop and apply statistical methods to complex research data and train researchers to use these methods.

We work with researchers from other disciplines and those who use our work to ensure that our research gives children the best possible start in life.

Read about our research

Population-based research to improve the lives of children and the adults that they will become.
We carry out research to improve children's health and wellbeing
We carry out research to  prevent, diagnose and treat conditions that might affect children in childhood
We carry out research to  prevent, diagnose and treat conditions that might affect children in later life.


This is the website for the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Institute of Child Health and the MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health



How our research is having an impact

Obesity

Research carried out by Dr Anna Pearce with Haringey PCT into the underlying causes of increasing childhood obesity was cited in the Department of Health's publication Healthy weight, healthy lives: guidance for local areas as an example of good practice in how to tackle obesity at a local level. 

More about obesity

Research spotlight 

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This centre is coordinating the UK’s latest large birth cohort study which will collect information on more than 100,000 children across the UK.

This birth cohort study will provide information that can be used by researchers to improve the health and wellbeing of children, both now and in the future.

Economic and Social Research Council
Medical Research Council

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