UCL Institute for Global Health
Sally McGregor
MBBS MD DPH FRCP
Emerita Professor of International Child 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
sallymcgregor@yahoo.com
Expertise: Early child development and nutrition
Biography: Sally trained in medicine at St. Mary’s
Hospital Paddington and worked at the Tropical Metabolism Research Unit
at the University of the West Indies from 1974 until joining CIHD in
1995. She is the chair of the Steering Committee for the Lancet series
on Child Development in Developing Countries which have recently been
published. She has published over 150 peer reviewed articles and written
many book chapters. She is an adviser to the British Government and the
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She is a Member of Task
Force on Iron for the UK Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition;
the Advisory Board for Early Childhood Program for Open Society
Foundation, and a member of the Advisory Panel on Early Childhood and
Readiness to Learn for the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington.
She has recently been responsible for a chapter on Cognitive, Motor and
Behavioral Development in Children.
