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 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.

More about immunisation

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.

Economic and Social Research Council
Medical Research Council

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