MARCH C stream termly meeting
About the event:
Please join us for the first termly MARCH C stream meeting. We wish to start a termly meeting where people interested in child health can meet and discuss topical issues as well as keeping up to date with the child health research and work taking place within the School.
In this first meeting we will kick off with three mini (five minute) presentations on “current issues and new research”.
Shunmay Yeung – C stream co-lead. Shunmay is a paediatrician with a background in health economics and operational research. She is still active clinically as a consultant in Paediatric infectious diseases at St Marys Imperial College hospital London and has done extensive work around antimalarial drug resistance in Southeast Asia. She will give a short talk on current topics in infection.
Andrew Prentice – C stream co-lead. Andrew is the head of the MRC International Nutrition Group at the School and at the MRC field site in Gambia. He maintains two areas of special interest: i) iron, infection and anaemia; and ii) nutritional epigenetics in which the group has made important progress in understanding how a mother’s nutrient status at the time of conception can affect her offspring’s epigenome with likely lifelong health consequences. He will be talking about child health and nutrition.
Marko Kerac – Marko is a clinical lecturer in public health nutrition with a medical background and a strong interest in global health. He will talk both about community case management and his upcoming research for which he has been awarded the Seed award from the Welcome Trust.
This will be followed by an informal discussion on projects occurring within the school, preliminary ideas for a Global Child Health module at the School, and a discussion/vote for the format of future in-house meetings as well as nominations for future workshop and seminar topics!
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