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.
This is the website for the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Insitute of Child Health and the MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health.
How our research is making a difference
Improving uptake of vaccines
Our
findings have been used to inform both national and local policies on
immunisation, training programmes and practice.
Most recently it was used in the production of the 2009 NICE guidelines, Reducing differences in the uptake of immunisations (including targeted vaccines) among children and young people aged under 19 years.
Research spotlight
The new UK Birth Cohort Study
This centre is coordinating the UK’s next 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.

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