UCL Centre for the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents

We aim to improve the health of women, children, and adolescents globally via inclusive engagement and intervention with community members and healthcare providers.

About the Centre

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 mobilisation to reduce violence against women and girls.

Strategic Priorities

Conduct formative research using qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, and participatory approaches to understand contextual opportunities to improve the health of women, children, and adolescents globally.
Evaluate complex interventions to improve the health of women, children, and adolescents through implementation science and controlled trials.
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.
Emphasise the inclusion of research participants and potential beneficiaries, with specific attention to those facing challenges linked with poverty and discrimination linked to dis/ability, racism, xenophobia or gender through research, education and engagement with communities and policy-makers.
To be a platform for education and training in maternal, child and adolescent health as well as approaches relevant to formative and evaluation research.