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UCL Centre for the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents

We aim to improve the health of women, children, and adolescents in low-, middle-, and high-income countries via inclusive engagement and intervention with community members and healthcare providers.

Ongoing research focuses on the development and evaluation of interventions to improve maternal and newborn health, child growth and development, adolescent nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, protection for vulnerable children, and community mobilization to reduce violence against women and girls.

Strategic Priorities

Research

Engagement

  • To promote and showcase the research enterprise as a collaboration between researchers, community members, healthcare providers, healthcare systems, and policymakers by increasing their engagement at each stage of the research cycle: asking questions, designing research, data collection, analysis, and reporting. 

  • For example our engagement about adolescent migrant health. Through research, education and engagement with communities and policy-makers, to emphasize the inclusion of research participants and potential beneficiaries, with specific attention to those facing challenges linked with disability, poverty, gender-based discrimination, and structural violence.  See our research on preventing gender-based violence.

Education


Race and Health

A network of healthcare workers, academics, and activists challenging the impact of racism, xenophobia and discrimination on health.

Visit the Race and Health website


Webinars

The centre ran a series of web seminars about topical issues related to COVID-19.

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Is Migrant Health Racialized:

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed how the intersection of multiple forms of racialisation, discrimination and inequalities have devastating impacts on migrant health.

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Are we moving backwards? The multiple jeopardy of gender-based violence, migration and COVID-19: 

This webinar explores the triple jeopardy of GBV, migration and COVID-19. It unpacks the risks of GBV faced by migrants and how COVID-19 has put pressure on health systems worldwide.


Explore our research