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A Brighter Future: Transforming Child Health in the UK
26 February 2025, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
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.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students | UCL alumni
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Fran Goldman
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, Prof 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 Dr Jenny Woodman (Associate Professor in Child and Family Policy, UCL Social Research Institute).
About the Speaker
Katie Harron
Professor of Statistics and Health Data Science at UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
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.
More about Katie Harron