A Brighter Future: Transforming Child Health in the UK
Join us at this Public Health Voices webinar where we will explore how to use linked health and education data to understand and improve child health in the UK.
A Brighter Future: Transforming Child Health in the UK
26 Feb 2025, 12:00 – 13:00
The latest Academy of Medical Sciences report on the state of child health in the UK highlighted an appalling decline in child health and a need for urgent action.
In this Public Health Voices Webinar, Professor Katie Harron (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health) will explore how linked, longitudinal data on health, education and social care services can be used to understand the key maternal and early life factors that influence and improve child health outcomes. She will discuss opportunities and challenges in evaluating early interventions, and how we can use linked data to gain a detailed picture of how children interact with different services as they grow up. The talk will provide examples of how research using this data will help the government and service providers understand children's needs and identify those at risk of falling through the cracks.
This event will be chaired by Professor Jenny Woodman (Professor of Child and Family Policy, UCL Social Research Institute).
Katie Harron is Professor of Statistics and Health Data Science at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health. Her research focuses on using data that are routinely collected from public services to generate evidence on the factors influencing child health and wellbeing. Katie leads the ECHILD Research Database, which links administrative data from health, education and children’s social care services from birth to young adulthood for 20 million people in England.
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Cost
Free
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All
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