Bio: Yoko Akachi is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. She previously worked for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and for WHO. She holds a Doctor of Science degree from Harvard School of Public Health and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Tokyo.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+358-(0)961599218

Email
akachi@wider.unu.edu

Website Address: www.wider.unu.edu/expert/yoko-akachi

Mailing Address: UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, FI-00160 Helsinki, Finland

Current research interests: Includes: development assistance for health, impact evaluations, maternal, newborn, and child health, intergenerational effect of health, and health systems strengthening in developing countries

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Intergenerational influences | Methodological issues: Which indicators? | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Akachi, Y., & Atun, R. (2011). Effect of Investment in Malaria Control on Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2002–2008. PLoS ONE, 6(6). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021309

Akachi, Y., & Canning, D. (2010). Health trends in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflicting evidence from infant mortality rates and adult heights. Economics & Human Biology, 8(2), 273-288. doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2010.05.015

Akachi, Y., Goodman, D. L., & Parker, D. (2009). Global climate change and child health: a review of pathways, impacts and measures to improve the evidence base. Florence, Italy: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.

Akachi, Y., & Canning, D. (2007). The height of women in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of health, nutrition, and income in childhood. Annals of Human Biology, 34(4), 397-410. doi:10.1080/03014460701452868

Bio: I graduated in Medicine in 1986, in the State University of Campinas, Brazil (Unicamp) and soon developed an interest in epidemiology and research methodology. I started a MSc course in Statistics in Unicamp as well, finished in 1990, under the supervision of Dr Euclydes C Lima Filho. The same year I got a scholarship from the Brazilian Research Council (CNPq) to do a PhD in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. There, I completed a MSc in Medical Statistics (1991) and a PhD in Epidemiology (1996) under the supervision of Dr David Ross, Maternal and Child Health Unit. I then joined the Dept. of Social Medicine, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil. Presently, I hold an Associate Professor post, teaching mostly biostatistics. Other posts held in this period were Public Health Area representative with Capes (Ministry of Education division responsible for post-graduate teaching) from 2005-2007 and Associate Editor with the Revista de Saúde Pública, since 2005. A full CV is available at http://lattes.cnpq.br/6249003853117061.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+55 53 3284-1300

Email
abarros.epi@gmail.com

Website Address: www.epidemio-ufpel.org.br

Mailing Address: Centro de Pesquisas Epidemiológicas, UFPel, R. Mal. Deodoro, 1160 3o. piso, 96020-220 - Pelotas, RS, Brazil

Current research interests: I started my career in epidemiology studying child health and day care centres and always had a strong interest in statistical methods. Along time my worked moved on to social determinants of health, especially health inequities. But I still work on child health, as one of the principal investigators of the Pelotas 2004 Birth Cohort, where body composition and mental health are two of our main interests. I have done some methodological work, mainly with modelling of binary outcomes from cross-sectional studies. More recently, I have studied out-of-pocket spending with health and child development and cognition.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family and Individual | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Barros AJ, Matijasevich A, et al. (2010). "Child development in a birth cohort: effect of child stimulation is stronger in less educated mothers." International Journal of Epidemiology 39(1): 285-294.

Barros AJ, Matijasevich A, Santos IS, Halpern R. Child development in a birth cohort: effect of child stimulation is stronger in less educated mothers. Int J Epidemiol 2009. DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyp272.

Barros AJ, Santos IS, Bertoldi AD. Can mothers rely on the Brazilian health system for their deliveries? An assessment of use of the public system and out-of-pocket expenditure in the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study, Brazil. BMC Health Serv Res 2008;8(1):57. DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-57.

Barros AJ, Victora CG, Horta BL, Goncalves HD, Lima RC, Lynch J. Effects of socioeconomic change from birth to early adulthood on height and overweight. Int J Epidemiol 2006;35(5):1233-8.

Barros AJ, Victora CG, Cesar JA, Neumann NA, Bertoldi AD. Brazil: Are Health and Nutrition Programs Reaching the Neediest? In: Gwatkin DR, Wagstaff A, Yazbeck AS, editors. Reaching the Poor with Health, Nutrition and Population Services. What works, What Doesn't and Why. Washington, DC: World Bank; 2005. p. 281-306. Available from: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPAH/Resources/Reaching-the-Poor/complete.pdf

Barros AJ, Hirakata VN. Alternatives for logistic regression in cross-sectional studies: an empirical comparison of models that directly estimate the prevalence ratio. BMC Med Res Methodol 2003;3(1):21. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-3-21.

Barros AJ, Ross DA, Fonseca WV, Williams LA, Moreira-Filho DC. Preventing acute respiratory infections and diarrhoea in child care centres. Acta Paediatr 1999;88(10):1113-8. Please see http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-7417-2008.

Bio: Laia is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester working on an ESRC Future Research Leader project examining ethnic inequalities in child health and development in the UK, the US and New Zealand.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+44 (0)161 275 4721

Email
laia.becares@manchester.ac.uk

Mailing Address: School of Social Sciences, Humanities Bridgeford St Building, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL

Current research interests: Racism and discrimination; ethnic health inequalities; social determinants of health; neighbourhood effects.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) /Stress and allostatic load / Intergenerational influences | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Multi-level studies - Society, Family and Individual / Root cause analysis to inform policy change | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Bécares, L., Nazroo, J., Jackson, J., & Heuvelman, H. (in press). Ethnic density effects among Caribbean people in the US and England: a cross-national comparison. Social Science & Medicine, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953612003395

Kelly, Y., Bécares, L., & Nazroo, J. (in press). Associations between maternal experiences of racism and early child health and development: Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. J Epidemiol Community Health doi:10.1136/jech-2011-200814

Bécares, L., Nazroo, J., Albor, C., Chandola, T., & Stafford, M. (2012). Examining the differential association between self-rated health and area deprivation among white British and ethnic minority people in England. Social Science & Medicine, 74, 616-624.

Bécares, L., Stafford, M., Laurence, J. & Nazroo, J. (2011) Composition, concentration, and deprivation. Exploring their association with social cohesion among different ethnic groups in the UK. //Urban Studies, 48(13), 2771-2787.

Das-Munshi, J., Bécares, L., Stansfeld, S., & Prince, M. (2010). Understanding the ethnic density effect on mental health: Multi-level investigation of survey data from England. British Medical Journal, 341, c5367.

Bio: Philippa Bird is currently a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University. Philippa completed her PhD at the University of York on the topic “Social gradients in child health and development in relation to income inequality”. She has an MSc Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Philippa has previously worked as a researcher at the University of Leeds, where she worked on projects on mental health in Africa and maternal health policy in Asia. She has also researched access to health care and health inequalities as the University of Liverpool.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
514 398 5771

Email
philippa.bird@mcgill.ca

Website Address: Profile on MHERC site

Mailing Address: Charles Meredith House, 1130 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1A3

Collaborative projects: EPOCH project (Elucidating Pathways on Child Health Inequalities); PhD project on social gradients in child health and development in relation to income inequality.

Current research interests: I currently conduct research on inequalities in child health and development in relation to income inequality. I also work on issues related to the measurement of socioeconomic position and the causes of child health inequalities. I am also working on a project on methods for synthesising evidence on the social determinants of health.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Stress and allostatic load | Methodological issues: Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual / Root cause analysis to inform policy change | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Cabieses B and Bird P. Glossary of access to healthcare and related concepts for low and middle-income countries (LMICs): A critical review of international literature. International Journal of Health Services (accepted, in press).

Elgar FJ, De Clercq B, Schnohr CW, Bird P, Pickett KE, Torsheim T, Hofmann F, Currie C. (2013) Absolute and relative family affluence and psychosomatic symptoms in adolescents. Social Science and Medicine 91, p25-31.

Bird P, Campbell-Hall V, Kakuma R and the MHaPP Research Program Consortium (2012) Cross-national qualitative research: the development and application of an analytic framework in the Mental Health and Poverty Project. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 01/2012, p1-13.

Bird P and Whitehead M (2011) Chapter 2: The public health challenge. In: LC Jones and J Douglas eds. Public Health: Building Innovative Practice. London: Sage publications, in association with The Open University.

Whitehead M and Bird P (2008) Policies and strategies for the reduction of social inequities in health in England. In: C Hogstedt, H Moberg, B Lundgren and M Backhans eds. Health for all? A critical analysis of public health policies in eight European countries. Oesterund: Swedish National Institute of Health.

Bio: Clare Blackburn is an Associated Professor in the School of Health and Social Studies at the University of Warwick. She is interested in research aims to improve the social material circumstances and service provision for children and their families. She has published in the area of poverty and health, cigarette smoking in households with young children and children's exposure to tobacco smoke. With Nick Spencer and Janet Read, she is researching patterns, trends and predictors of childhood disability in the UK.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
0044 2476 524132

Email
c.m.blackburn@warwick.ac.uk

Website Address: www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/shss/expertise/blackburn

Mailing Address: School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

Collaborative projects: Childhood disability and socioeconomic disadvantage: exploring patterns, predictors and trends with Nick Spencer and Janet Read. Childhood disability: measurement, prevalence and social circumstances in different national contexts with Nick Spencer, Dave Gordon, Doug Simkiss and Janet Read.

Current research interests: Research interests focus on the way that poverty and poor material circumstances shape health outcomes, health behaviour and caring routines in households with children. Current research is focusing on childhood disability: issues related to establishing the prevalence of childhood disability in the UK, the circumstances and characteristics of disabled children and their households and the predictors of childhood disability.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Intergenerational influences | Methodological issues: Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Which indicators?: for example, perception of health vs. objective measures of health (these may be more reliable in studying mechanisms) | Interventions: Children’s rights & equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities

Selected Publications

Spencer NJ, Blackburn CM, Read JM. Disabling chronic conditions in childhood and socioeconomic disadvantage: a systematic review and meta-analyses of observational studies, BMJ Open 2015;5:e007062. DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007062

Read, J., Blackburn, C., Spencer, N. (2009) Disabled Children in the UK: A quality assessment of quantitative data sources. Child: Care, Health and Development, early online access Sept 09.

Blackburn, C., Read, J. and Spencer, N. (2007) Can we count them? Scoping data sources on disabled children and their households in the UK. Child: Care, Health and Development, 33, 3, 291-295.

Blackburn, C., Bonas, S., Spencer, N., Coe, C., Dolan, A. and Moy, R. (2005b) "Smoking behaviour among fathers of new infants". Social Science and Medicine, 61:527-526.

N Spencer, C Blackburn, S Bonas, C Coe, and A Dolan (2005) Parent reported home smoking bans and toddler (18–30 month) smoke exposure: a cross-sectional survey. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 90: 670 - 674.

Blackburn, C., Spencer, N. J., Bonas, S., Coe, C., Dolan, A. and Moy, R (2003) ‘The effect of strategies to reduce exposure of infants to environmental tobacco smoke in the home: cross-sectional survey’. British Medical Journal: 327, 2 August: 257-261.

Bio: Tom is the Sunny Hill Health Centre/BC Leadership Chair in Child Development in the Human Early Learning Partnership and the Centre for Community Child Health Research at the University of British Columbia. He is also Co-Director of CIFAR's Experience-Based Brain and Biological Development Program and a member of Harvard University's National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. He completed his baccalaureate degree in philosophy and psychology at Stanford University and an MD at Baylor College of Medicine. He then did pediatric residency training at the University of California, San Francisco and was named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Prior to his appointment at the University of British Columbia, he spent twenty years on the pediatrics and public health faculties of the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
604 827 4465

Email
tom.boyce@ubc.ca

Website Address: -

Mailing Address: 440-2206 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, CANADA

Current research interests:A social epidemiologist and developmental-behavioral pediatrician, Tom's research addresses the interplay among neurobiological and psychosocial processes leading to socially partitioned differences in childhood disease. Studying the interactive influences of socioeconomic adversities and neurobiological responses, his work has demonstrated how psychological stress and neurobiological reactivity to aversive social contexts operate conjointly to produce disorders of both physical and mental health in childhood populations. A central goal of his work is the development of a new synthesis between biomedical and social epidemiologic accounts of human pathogenesis and an articulation of the public health implications of this synthetic view.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Stress and allostatic load / Social into the biological and epigenetic | Methodological issues: Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual | Interventions: Children's rights & equity - research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities / What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Boyce WT, Ellis BJ: Biological sensitivity to context: I. An evolutionary-developmental theory of the origins and functions of stress reactivity. Development and Psychopathology 17 (2): 271-301, 2005.

Boyce WT: Social stratification, health and violence in the very young. Ann NY Acad Sci 1036: 47-68, 2005.

Boyce WT, Essex MJ, Alkon A, Goldsmith HH, Kraemer HC, Kupfer DJ: Early father involvement moderates biobehavioral susceptibility to mental health problems in middle childhood. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 45(12):1510-20, 2006.

Kishiyama MM, Boyce WT, Jimenez AM, Perry LM, Knight RT: Socioeconomic disparities in prefrontal function in children. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 21(6): 1106-1115, 2009

Obradovic, J & Boyce WT: Individual differences in behavioral, physiological, and genetic sensitivities to contexts: Implications for development and adaptation. Developmental Neuroscience, 300-308, 2009

Bio:

• Senior consultant in Child and Adolescent Public Health, Swedish National Institute of Public Health, 2009-
• Head, Swedish National Institute of Public Health, Child & Adolescent Public Health Unit, 2001-2009.
• Associate professor, Karolinska Institute, 1992-
• Board Specialist of Social Medicine, 1991.
• Doctorate in paediatrics/social paediatrics, 1987.
• Board Specialist of Paediatrics, 1976.
• MD, Karolinska Karolinska Institute, 1970

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+46 706 899753

Email
sven.bremberg@mac.com

Website Address: - web.me.com/sven.bremberg

Mailing Address: Färgargårstorget 52, 116 43 Stockholm

Collaborative projects: Policy development

Current research interests

• The relationship between average improvement of child health and equity in child health
• Health effects of preschools
• Health effects of education
• Health effects of universal parenting support
• Studies of policy implementation
• Mental health in adolescents and young adults - upstream causes of the raise of disorders in Europe since the early 1990s.

Research priorities:
Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies, Root cause analysis to inform policy change | 3. Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Bremberg S. The Swedish perspective - a puzzle. Soc Sci Med. 2012;74(5):668-70.

Bremberg S. Social inequalites in health in Swedish children and adolescents - a review 2:ed. Stockholm: National Institute of Public Health Sweden; 2011

Sellström E, Bremberg S, O'Campo P. Yearly incidence of mental disorders in economically inactive young adults. Eur J Public Health. 2011;21(6):812-4.

Lager A, Bremberg S, Vågerö D. The association of early IQ and education with mortality: 65 year longitudinal study in Malmö, Sweden BMJ. 2009;339(b5282 ).

Bremberg S Does an increase of low-income families affect child health inequalities? A Swedish case study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57(8):584-8.

Bio: Nurso-Midwife with over 15 years of experience in applied health research and teaching. MSc in Epidemiology (UC, Chile) and PhD in Health Sciences (Social epidemiology, University of York, UK). I lead the Social Studies in Health Research Programme at Universidad del Desarrollo. I am a visiting researcher at University of York and an associate epidemiologist at the Bradford Institute for Health Research.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+56 99 65946085

Email
bcabieses@udd.cl

Mailing Address: Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Campus Rector Ernesto Silva B., Avenida La Plaza 680, San Carlos de Apoquindo, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile

Collaborative projects:

• Title: Developing public health intelligence in primary care for international immigrants in Chile: A multi-methods study Funder: Fondecyt Chile N° 11130042 Collaborators: University of York, Bradford Institute for Health. Duration: 2013-2017.
• Title: Effective access to healthcare, multidimensional poverty and self-reported health status in adult population in Chile: a path analysis. Funder: Direction of Research at UDD.Collaborators: University of York, Bradford Institute for Health Research Duration: 2016.
• Title: Born In Bradford Cohort study Funders: The British government via various grant funders. Collaborators: Multiple research teams all over Europe and in the UK. Duration: 2004 and ongoing (cohort study, ongoing governmental and EU financial support)
• Title: Income distribution and its relationship to various health problems in the adult population in Chile from 2009 National Survey Funder: Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. Collaborators: University of York, Centre for Health Economics, Hospital Barros Luco Unidad de Estudios. Duration: 2012.

Current research interests: I am a social epidemiologist with interest in social inequalities in health. I focus on the following research topics: international migration and health, socioeconomic inequality and health, global public health, and social determinants of health.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) | Methodological issues: Need to study social gradients as well as poverty, Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual, Regional studies (within countries)| 3. Interventions: Children’s rights & equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities Policy innovation, What works in reducing child health inequalities? | Other research priorities: immigrant children in Chile and globally.

Selected Publications

Cabieses B, Cookson R, Espinoza M, Santorelli G, Delgado I (2015). Did socioeconomic inequality in self-reported health in Chile fall after the equity-based healthcare reform of 2005? A concentration index decomposition analysis” Plos One. Sep 29;10(9):e0138227.

Cabieses B, Uphoff E, Pinart M, Wright J, Anto J. (2014). A systematic review on the development of asthma and allergic diseases in relation to international immigration: the leading role of the environment confirmed. Plos One. 9(8): e105347.

Cabieses B, Tunstall H & Pickett KE. (2015). Understanding the socioeconomic status of international immigrants in Chile through hierarchical cluster analysis: a population-based study. International Migration; 53(2): 303-320.

Bio: Mr. Choonara is a paediatric clinical pharmacologist who has helped develop a training programme and accreditation of a new sub-speciality. He has an interest in clinical trials. He is deputy editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood and chair of the NIHR HTA Pharmaceuticals Panel which commissions research. Mr. Choonara has been visiting Cuba each year and this has drawn him into public health and the importance of reducing inequalities.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
01332 724693

Email
imti.choonara@nottingham.ac.uk

Website Address:

Mailing Address: Academic Division of Child Health, University of Nottingham, Derbyshire Children's Hospital, The Medical School, Clinical Sciences Wing, Uttoxeter Road, Derby DE22 3DT, UK

Current research interests:

• Access to medicines for children of refugees/asylum seekers and travellers in the UK
• Comparison of child mortality rates between the UK and Sweden and any relationship between the number of medicines available
• Effect of protein energy malnutrition on drug metabolism
• Literature review of counterfeit medicines
• Collaboration with Cuba in relation to pharmacovigilance

Research priorities: Wish to explore the link between access to medicines and inequalities

Selected Publications

S Alkahtani, J Cherrill, C Millward, K Grayson, R Hilliam, H Sammons, Choonara I.. Access to medicines by child refugees in the East Midlands region of England: a cross-sectional study, BMJ Open, vol. 4, Issue 12, 2014.

Choonara I.. Why children do not receive treatment (Editorial), Archives of Disease in Childhood, Volume 99, Issue 7, 2014. Arch Dis Child 2014;99:605-606 doi:10.1136/archdischild-2013-305257

Sánchez Miranda D, Choonara I. Hurricanes and child health: lessons from Cuba. Arch Dis Child 2011; 96: 328-329

Alkahtani S, Sammons H, Choonara I. Epidemics of acute renal failure in children (diethylene glycol toxicity). Arch Dis Child 2010; 95: 1062-1064

Oshikoya KA, Sammons HM, Choonara I.. A systematic review of pharmacokinetics studies in children with protein-energy malnutrition. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 2010; 66: 1025-1035

Barennes H, Choonara I. Breast feeding and drug therapy in neglected diseases. Arch Dis Child 2010; 95: 222-223

Bio: Jailson B. Correia is research director at the Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira (IMIP) and an associate professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil. Dr Correia is also a researcher for the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil (CNPq). He graduated in Medicine at the University of Pernambuco (1993) and completed his paediatrics training at IMIP (1996). He obtained a Masters degree in Tropical Paediatrics (1998) and a Ph.D. degree (2005) at the University of Liverpool (UK). Following his return to Brazil, he has been leading a range of national and international collaborative studies on child health. He has ever since been running the redevelopment of a fast growing research center, with a strong emphasis on research capacity building as a driver for local development.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+55 81 21224702

Email
jcorreia@imip.org.br

Website Address: www.imip.org.br

Mailing Address: Instituto de Medicina Integral Prof. Fernando Figueira, Diretoria de Pesquisa, Rua dos Coelhos, 300, Boa Vista, Recife - PE, CEP 50070-550, Brazil

Current research interests: Dr Correia has developed interests on epidemiological and translational studies on infectious diseases of children from underprivileged settings, with special emphasis on the role of the socioeconomic status on the burden of vaccine-preventable diseases. His current projects include active surveillance of pathogens causing severe acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea and meningitis in children from the poor suburbs of Recife. He is also co-chair of the IMIP/Recife Longitudinal Studies Working Group.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Intergenerational influences | Methodological issues: Regional studies (within countries) | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities? | Other: Role of the socioeconomic status on the burden of infectious diseases.

Selected Publications

Gurgel RQ, Correia JB, Cuevas LE. Effect of rotavirus vaccination on circulating virus strains. Lancet. 2008 Jan 26;371(9609):301-2

Nakagomi T, Correia JB, Nakagomi O, Montenegro FM, Cuevas LE, Cunliffe NA, Hart CA. Norovirus infection among children with acute gastroenteritis in Recife, Brazil: disease severity is comparable to rotavirus gastroenteritis. Arch Virol. 2008;153(5):957-60.

Nakagomi T, Cuevas LE, Gurgel RG, Elrokhsi SH, Belkhir YA, Abugalia M, Dove W, Montenegro FM, Correia JB, Nakagomi O, Cunliffe NA, Hart CA. Apparent extinction of non-G2 rotavirus strains from circulation in Recife, Brazil, after the introduction of rotavirus vaccine. Arch Virol. 2008;153(3):591-3.

Batty GD, Alves JG, Correia JB, lor DA. Examining life-course influences on chronic disease: the importance of birth cohort studies from low- and middle- income countries. An overview. Braz J Med Biol Res. 2007; 40:1277-86.

Correia JB, Hart CA. Meningococcal disease. Clin Evid. 2004;(12):1164-81.

Bio: Frank received BA (Honours) and MSc degrees in experimental psychology from Memorial University of Newfoundland and a PhD in developmental psychology from Dalhousie University and has previously worked in university and government settings in Canada and Britain. At McGill University, Frank is cross-appointed to Douglas Institute (Department of Psychiatry) and Institute for Health and Social Policy in the Faculty of Medicine.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+01 514 398 1739

Email
frank.elgar@mcgill.ca

Website Address: walden2.mcgill.ca

Mailing Address: Institute for Health and Social Policy McGill University, 1130 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 1A3

Collaborative projects: I collaborate with Kate Pickett (University of York) on studies of income inequality and child health.

Current research interests: My research on social inequalities in child health is a blend of health psychology and social epidemiology. Collaborations in the WHO Health Behaviour of School-aged Children study examine the social and economic determinants of health and human development, focusing primarily on income inequality, social capital and socioeconomic disparities in health.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Intergenerational influences small box where they can check | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies–Society, Family & Individual | Interventions: Children's rights & equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities Policy innovation | Other research priorities: Mining international data on child health and development.

Selected Publications

Elgar FJ, Pförtner TK, Moor I, De Clercq B, Stevens GW, Currie C. Socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent health 2002-2010: a time-series analysis of 34 countries participating in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study. Lancet. 2015 Feb 3. pii: S0140-6736(14)61460-4. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61460-4.

Elgar, F. J., Pickett, K. E., Pickett, W., Craig, W., Molcho, M., Hurrelmann, K., & Lenzi, M. (in press). School bullying, homicide and income inequality: A cross-national pooled time series analysis. International Journal of Public Health.

De Clercq, B, Vyncke, V., Hublet, A., Elgar, F. J. Ravens-Sieberer, U., Currie C., Hooghe, M., Ieven, A., & Maes L. (2012). Social capital and social inequality in adolescents' health in 601 Flemish communities: A multilevel analysis. Social Science and Medicine, 74, 202-210.

Elgar, F. J., Davis, C. G., Wohl, M. J., Trites, S. J., Zelenski, J. M., & Martin, M. S. (2011). Social capital, health and life satisfaction in 50 countries. Health and Place, 17, 1044-1053.

Elgar, F. J., Trites, S. J., & Boyce, W. (2010). Social capital reduces socioeconomic differences in child health: Evidence from the Canadian Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 101, S23-S27.

Elgar, F. J. (2010). Income inequality, trust, and population health in 33 countries. American Journal of Public Health, 100, 2311-2315.

Bio: Gary Evans is the Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology, Cornell University. He is a developmental and environmental psychologist.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
607 255 4775

Email
gwe1@cornell.edu

Website Address:

Mailing Address: Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4401, USA

Current research interests: The environment of childhood poverty: what role do psychosocial and physical risk factors, particularly as the accumulate, play in the adverse impacts of childhood poverty on human development. I am also interested in stress as a model for how poverty impacts child development.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty), Stress and allostatic load | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies, Root cause analysis to inform policy change.

Selected Publications

Evans, G. W., Li, D., & Sepanski Whipple, S. (2013, April 8). Cumulative Risk and Child Development. Psychological Bulletin. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0031808

Evans, G.W. (2004). The environment of childhood poverty. American Psychologist, 59, 77-92.

Evans, G.W., Gonnella, C., Marcynyszyn, L.A., Gentile, L., &Salpekar, N. (2005). The role of chaos in poverty and children's socioemotional adjustment. Psychological Science, 16, 560-565.

Evans, G.W., &Kim, P. (2007). Childhood poverty and health: Cumulative risk exposure and stress dysregulation. Psychological Science, 18,953-957.

Evans, G.W. & Schamberg, M.A. (2009). Childhood poverty, chronic stress, and adult working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106, 6545-6549.

Bio: He has continuously been engaged as a teacher at universities since 1976. The main themes for his teaching has been; medical sociology, social epidemiology and public health.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+46 101037517

Email
tomas.faresjo@liu.se

Website Address: www.twincitiesr.se

Mailing Address: Dept of Medicine and Health, Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping University, SE-58183 Linkoping, Sweden

Current research interests:

• The importance of the social environment for health.
• Intergenerational and epigenetic studies.
• International comparisons of health.
• Child health equity studies.
• New measurement of stress exposure and its application i health care.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Stress and allostatic load, Social into the biological and epigenetic | Methodological issues: Need to study social gradients as well as poverty, Regional studies (within countries) | Interventions: Children’s rights &equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities Policy innovation

Selected Publications

Jerker Karlén, Anneli Frostell, Elvar Theodorsson, Tomas Faresjö and Johnny, Maternal Influence on Child HPA Axis: A Prospective Study of Cortisol Levels in Hair, Pediatrics, published online October 7, 2013; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2013-1178, 10 p.

Karlén J, Faresjö T, Ludvigsson J. Could the social environment trigger for the induction of diabetes-related autoantibodies in young children? (Submitted manuscript to Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2010)

Karlén J, Frostell A, Ludvigsson J, Theodorsson E, Faresjö T. Measuring cortisol in hair for retrospective detection of exposure to serious life events. (Manuscript under revision, BMC Public Health, 2011)

Wennerholm C, Grip B, Nilsson H, Rahmqvist M, Honkasalo M-L, Faresjö T. Prevalence of coronary heart diseases in different social environments – the Twincities. International Journal of Health Geographics, 2011, 10:5.

Faresjö T, Faresjö A. To match or not to match in epidemiological studies – same outcome but less power. Int J Environ. Res Public Health 2010, 7; 325-332.

Faresjö T, Rahmqvist M. Educational level a crucial factor for good perceived health in the local community. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2010; 38: 605-610.

Bio: Karl Gauffin is a postdoctoral researcher at Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), a transdisciplinary research center connected to Stockholm University and Karolinska institutet.

Karl has a PhD in public health from Karolinska institutet and wrote his thesis on childhood social inequality and alcohol related health disparities later in life. He also holds an MSc in health inequalities and public policy from the University of Edinburgh and a Dipl.Pol degree in political science from the Free University Berlin.

Currently, he is involved in the research project Coming of Age in Exile (CAGE), which examines the social and health related development of young refugees in the Nordic countries.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+46 8 6747994

Email
karl.gauffin@chess.su.se

Website Address: Profile on CHESS website

Mailing Address: Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University / Karolinska Institutet, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

Collaborative projects: "Coming of Age in Exile" (CAGE) in cooperation with Professor Anders Hjern. "Children of addicts – long term outcomes of health, cognitive competence and social adjustment in relation to adoption and other child welfare interventions" in cooperation with Professor Anders Hjern.

Current research interests:

• Public health theory development and social determinants of health
• Childhood social inequality and its connection to alcohol related health inequalities in adulthood
• Migration and health, global health and social justice

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty), Intergenerational influences | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies, Need to study social gradients as well as poverty | Interventions: Children’s rights & equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities Policy innovation, What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Gauffin K, Hemmingsson T, Hjern A. The effect of childhood socioeconomic position on alcohol-related disorders later in life: a Swedish national cohort study. J Epidemiol Commun H. 2013 November 1, 2013;67(11):932-8.

Gauffin K, Vinnerljung B, Hjern A. School performance and alcohol-related disorders in early adulthood: a Swedish national cohort study. Int J Epidemiol. 2015 Mar 22.

Gauffin K, Vinnerljung B, Fridell M, Hesse M, Hjern A. Childhood socio-economic status, school failure and drug abuse: a Swedish national cohort study. Addiction. 2013 Aug;108(8):1441-9.

Bio: Nicolas Gilbert is a senior epidemiologist with the Public Health Agency of Canada, where he coordinates the infant health component of the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System (CPSS). He is also a clinical instructor (chargé d'enseignement de clinique) with the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of Université de Montréal. He holds BSc and MSc degrees in biology from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and a graduate diploma in epidemiology from McGill University.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
1-613-952-5834

Email
nicolas.gilbert@phac-aspc.gc.ca

Website Address: www.science.gc.ca

Mailing Address: Public Health Agency of Canada, 200 Eglantine - 1910C, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K9 Canada

Collaborative projects: Socioeconomic inequalities and infant mortality in Canada, 1991-2005 (with Russell Wilkins and Michael Kramer).

Current research interests: Epidemiology of infant mortality, in particular the suddent infant death syndrome (SIDS): temporal trends, risk factors, and accuracy of surveillance data.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies

Selected Publications

Gilbert NL, Fell DB, Joseph KS, Liu S, León JA, Sauve R. Temporal trends in sudden infant death syndrome in Canada from 1991 to 2005: contribution of changes in cause of death assignment practices and in maternal and infant characteristics. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2012; 26: 124-130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3016.2011.01248.x

Gilbert NL, Auger N, Wilkins R, Kramer MS. Neighbourhood income and neonatal, postneonatal and sudden Infant death syndrome (SIDS) mortality in Canada, 1991-2005. Can J Public Health 2013;104(3): e187-e192.

Bio: Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, a Core Faculty Member at the Centers for Health Policy/Primary Care and Outcomes Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Stanford Center on Longevity and Stanford Center for International Development. Dr. Goldhaber-Fiebert graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1997, with an A.B. in the History and Literature of America. After working as a software engineer and consultant, he conducted a year-long public health research program in Costa Rica with his wife in 2001. Winner of the Lee B. Lusted Prize for Outstanding Student Research from the Society for Medical Decision Making in 2006 and in 2008, he completed his PhD in Health Policy concentrating in Decision Science at Harvard University in 2008. He was elected as a Trustee of the Society for Medical Decision Making in 2011.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
650-721-2486

Email
jeremygf@stanford.edu

Mailing Address: 117 Encina Commons, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

Collaborative projects: EPOCH

Current research interests: Dr. Goldhaber-Fiebert's research focuses on complex policy decisions surrounding the prevention and management of increasingly common, chronic diseases and the life course impact of exposure to their risk factors. In the context of both developing and developed countries including the US, India, China, and South Africa, he has examined chronic conditions including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, human papillomavirus and cervical cancer, tuberculosis, and hepatitis C and on risk factors including smoking, physical activity, obesity, malnutrition, and other diseases themselves. He combines simulation modeling methods and cost-effectiveness analyses with econometric approaches and behavioral economic studies to address these issues.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Regional studies (within countries) | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Mohanan M, Vera-Hernández M, Das V, Giardili S, Goldhaber-Fiebert JD, Rabin TL, Raj SS, Schwartz JI, Seth A. The Know-Do Gap in Quality of Health Care for Childhood Diarrhea and Pneumonia in Rural India. JAMA Pediatr. 2015 Feb 16.

Horwitz SM, Hurlburt MS, Goldhaber-Fiebert JD, Heneghan AM, Zhang J, Rolls-Reutz J, Fisher E, Landsverk J, Stein RE. Mental health services use by children investigated by child welfare agencies. Pediatrics. 2012 Nov;130(5):861-9.

Goldhaber-Fiebert JD, Rubinfeld RE, Bhattacharya J, Robinson TN, Wise PH. The utility of childhood and adolescent obesity assessment in relation to adult health. Med Decis Making. 2013 Feb;33(2):163-75.

Goldhaber-Fiebert JD, Bailey SL, Hurlburt MS, Zhang J, Snowden LR, Wulczyn F, Landsverk J, Horwitz SM. Evaluating child welfare policies with decision-analytic simulation models. Adm Policy Ment Health. 2012 Nov;39(6):466-77.

Bio: I am a pediatrician, adolescent medicine sub-specialist, and social epidemiologist. I received my MD at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and my general pediatric and Adolescent Medicine specialty training at Children’s Hospital, Boston; I was also a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCSF, fellow at the Joint Program in Society and Health at New England Medical Center and the Harvard School of Public Health, and a William T Grant Scholar. I belong to many professional organizations, am an elected member of both the Society for Pediatric Research and American Pediatric Society, and am a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Society for Adolescent Medicine and Health.Prior to my tenure at MGH, I served on the faculties at Boston Children’s Hospital, Tufts Medical Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and Brandeis University.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
1-617-643-6631

Email
egoodman3@mgh.harvard.edu

Mailing Address: Division of General Academic Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114

Current research interests: For the past two decades, I have been attempting to understand how the structure of our society, created through social and economic policies and practices, influences health and well being. I have termed this area of research “the biology of social justice.” My research links social policy to psychological and physiological functioning by suggesting that the social structure created by our policies exerts direct physiological and psychological effects on health and wellbeing. Much of this research has centered on the process through which differences in social status influence children’s health and the trajectory toward adult cardiometabolic health. An important part of my research agenda is assessing the impact of perceptions of social position on health. A second line of inquiry is related to obesity, insulin resistance, and cardiometabolic risk. A third line of research is developing and evaluating programs which build strengths, encourage civic engagement, and offer opportunities for teens to positively impact both themselves and their environments.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Stress and allostatic load / Social into the biological and epigenetic | Methodological issues: Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual / Which indicators?: for example, perception of health vs. objective measures of health (these may be more reliable in studying mechanisms)

Selected Publications

Goodman, E, Adler, NE, Kawachi, I, Frazier, AL, Huang, B, and Colditz, GA. Adolescents' perceptions of social status: development and evaluation of a new indicator. Pediatrics. 2001;108 (2). (download)

Goodman, E, Huang B, Schafer-Kalkhoff T, Adler NE. Perceived socioeconomic status: a new type of identity which influences adolescents' self rated health. J Adolesc Health. 2007;41:479-487.

Pietras, SA, Goodman, E. Socioeconomic Status Gradients in Inflammation in Adolescence. Psychosomatic Med, 2013;72:442-448.

Cheng, ER, Cohen, A and Goodman, E. The Role of Perceived Discrimination during Childhood and Adolescence in Understanding Racial and Socioeconomic Influence on Depression in Young Adulthood. J Pediatr, 2015; 166:370-377.

Goodman, E, Maxwell, S, Malspeis, S, and Adler, N. Developmental Trajectories of Subjective Social Status. Pediatrics, In Press.

Bio: Dr David Gordon is Professor of Social Justice and the Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research (see www.bris.ac.uk/poverty/) at the University of Bristol, UK. Professor Gordon is an international recognised expert on poverty and inequality research and has written and edited over a hundred books, papers and reports on these subjects. He is a member of the UN Expert Group on Poverty Statistics (Rio Group) and contributed to its recent ‘Compendium of Good Practice in Poverty Measurement’. Professor Gordon has acted as an external expert for the European Union Working Group on Income, Poverty and Social Exclusion and was a scientific advisor to the European Union/Latin American Network 10 - Fight against Urban Poverty. Professor Gordon advised the United Nations Department for Economic & Social Affairs (UNDESA) on poverty and hunger issues amongst young people (aged 15 to 24) and contributed to the 2005, 2007 and 2009 World Youth Reports. He recently completed working with UNICEF on its first ever Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities which will be published during 2009.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+44(0)117 9546761

Email
dave.gordon@bristol.ac.uk

Website Address: www.bristol.ac.uk/sps/aboutus/sps-staff-details/gordon/

Mailing Address: School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol , 8 Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TZ, United Kingdom

Collaborative projects: Several projects on child disability and health inequalities with colleagues at Warwick University.

Current research interests: Social and distributional justice, social harm, scientific measurement of poverty, child poverty and human rights, childhood disability, crime and poverty, area-based anti-poverty measures, the causal effects of poverty on ill health, and rural poverty.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to define poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual / Regional studies (within countries) / Root cause analysis to inform policy change | Interventions: Children’s rights & equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities

Selected Publications

Subramanian. S.V., Nandy, S., Irving, M., Gordon, D., Lambert, H. and Davey Smith, D. (2006) The mortality divide in India: the differential contribution of gender, caste and standard of living across life course. American Journal of Public Health 96, 818 – 825.

Nandy, S., Irving, M., Gordon, D., Subramanian. S.V. and Davey Smith, D. (2005) Poverty, child undernutrition and morbidity: new evidence from India. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, 83, 3, 210-216.

Hutchison, T. & Gordon, D. (2005) Ascertaining the prevalence of childhood disability. Child Care, Health and Development, 31 (1), 99-107.

Gordon, D., Nandy, S., Pantazis, C., Pemberton, S. and Townsend, P. (2003) Child Poverty in the Developing World, Policy Press: Bristol.

Shaw, M., Dorling, D., Gordon, D. and Davey Smith, G. (1999) The Widening Gap: health Inequalities and Policy in Britain. Bristol, The Policy Press.

Bio: Jody Heymann is the Founding Director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy, the WORLD Global Data Centre, and the Project on Global Working Families. An internationally renowned researcher on health and social policy, Dr. Heymann holds a Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Social Policy. She has authored and edited over 150 publications. Deeply committed to translating research into policies and programs that will improve individual and population health, Dr. Heymann has worked with leaders in North American, European, African, and Latin American governments as well as a wide range of intergovernmental organizations including the World Health Organization, the International Labor Organization, UNICEF, and UNESCO. Central to her efforts are bridging the gap between research and policymakers, and Dr. Heymann's research has been presented to heads of state and senior policymakers around the world. She has worked closely on the development of legislation with the US Congress as well as with UN agencies on the implications of her team's results for global policy.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
310.825.6381

Email
jody.heymann@ph.ucla.edu

Website Address: ph.ucla.edu/content/about-us/about-dean/about-dean

Mailing Address: UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Dean's Office 650 Charles E. Young Dr. S., 16-035 Center for Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772

Current research interests: Examining how social policies and programs affect population health, welfare, and economic outcomes. Particular attention will be paid to the impact on the worst off.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Intergenerational influences | Methodological issues: Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual / Root cause analysis to inform policy change | Interventions: Children’s rights & equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities / What works in reducing child health inequalities? | Other: Health Policy, Social Policy, Poverty Policy, Children, Health Outcomes, Social Determinants, Working Conditions.

Selected Publications

Heymann SJ with Barrera M. Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder: Creating Value by Investing in Your Workforce. Harvard Business Press. Forthcoming.

Heymann SJ and Earle A. Raising the Global Floor: Dismantling The Myth That We Can't Afford Good Working Conditions For Everyone. Stanford University Press. 2009.

Heymann SJ. Forgotten Families: Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Heymann SJ, Hertzman C, Barer M, and Evans R, eds. Healthier Societies: From Analysis to Action. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Heymann SJ. The Widening Gap: Why Working Families Are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done About It. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Bio:

• 1984 MD: Karolinska Institutet
• 1990 PhD: Karolinska Institutet
• 2002 Certified specialist in child and adolescent medicine
• 2005 Adjunct professor in paediatric epidemiology, Uppsala university
• 2008 Adjunct professor in paediatric epidemiology, Nordic School of Public Health
• 2008 Research associate Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS)

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
46-8-55553169

Email
anders.hjern@socialstyrelsen.se

Website Address: www.chess.su.se / www.nhv.se

Mailing Address: Centre for Epidemiology, National Board of Health and Welfare, 106 30 Stockholm, Sweden

Collaborative projects: Perinatal health and inequity

Current research interests: Migration and child health / Inequality and perinatal health / School as a mediator of socio-economic inequalities in child health / Health of adoptees and foster children

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Social into the biological and epigenetic / Intergenerational influences | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to define poverty / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual | Interventions: Children's rights & equity - research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities Policy innovation / What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Hjern, A. Lindblad, F. Vinnerljung, B. Suicide, psychiatric illness and social maladjustment in intercountry adoptees in Sweden. Lancet. 2002 10;360(9331):443-8.

Hjern, A. Wicks, S. Dahlman, C. Social adversity contributes to high morbidity in psychoses in immigrants - a national cohort study in two generations of Swedish residents. Psychological Medicine 2004 Aug;34(6):1025-33.

Ringbäck-Weitoft, G. Hjern, A. Haglund, B. Rosén, M. Mortality, severe morbidity, and injury in children living with single parents in Sweden: a population-based study. Lancet 2003; 361: 289-295.

Ostberg V, Hjern A. School performance and hospital admissions due to self-inflicted injury: a Swedish national cohort study. Int J Epidemiol. 2009 Oct;38(5):1334-41. Epub 2009 Jun 25.

Wallby T, Hjern A. Region of birth, income and breastfeeding in a Swedish county. Acta Paediatr. 2009 Nov;98(11):1799-804. Epub 2009 Sep 3.

Bio:

Statistical epidemiologist with expertise in modelling repeated measures data.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
00 441173310134

Email
laura.howe@bristol.ac.uk

Website Address: University of Bristol Profile

Mailing Address: Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Bristol, BS8 2BN

Current research interests: 1) Emergence and changes in inequalities over childhood and adolescence; 2) Inequalities in obesity and cardiometabolic health; 3) Mediators and mechanisms driving inequalities, including epigenetics and other biological processes.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Social into the biological and epigenetic | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to define poverty / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty

Selected Publications

Howe LD, Lawlor DA. Propper C. Trajectories of socioeconomic inequalities in health, behaviours and academic achievement across childhood and adolescence. J Epidemiol Community Health 2013;67(4):358-64

Howe LD, Tilling K, Galobardes B, Lawlor DA. Loss to follow-up in cohort studies: bias in estimates of socioeconomic inequalities. Epidemiology. 2013 Jan;24(1):1-9.

Howe LD, Tilling K, Galobardes B, Smith GD, Ness AR, Lawlor DA. Socioeconomic disparities in trajectories of adiposity across childhood. Int J Pediatr Obes. 2011 Jun;6(2-2):e144-53

Howe LD, Tilling K, Galobardes B, Smith GD, Gunnell D, Lawlor DA. Socioeconomic differences in childhood growth trajectories: at what age do height inequalities emerge? J Epidemiol Community Health. 2012 Feb;66(2):143-8

Howe LD, Galobardes B, Sattar N, Hingorani AD, Deanfield J, Ness AR, Davey-Smith G, Lawlor DA. Are there socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular risk factors in childhood, and are they mediated by adiposity? Findings from a prospective cohort study. Int J Obes (Lond). 2010 Jul;34(7):1149-59

Bio:

Lynn Kemp is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Health Equity Training Research and Evaluation, part of the UNSW Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity. Lynn is a primary health care researcher who is actively developing an early childhood research agenda that seeks to develop and implement effective and sustainable interventions to improve outcomes for children living in socioeconomic disadvantage. Lynn led the Australian randomised trial of sustained nurse home visiting intervention and long-term outcomes for children in a disadvantaged community (the MECSH study).

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+61418436588

Email
l.kemp@unsw.edu.au

Mailing Address: CHETRE, Level 3, Ingham Institute, 1 Campbell St, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia

Collaborative projects: Lynn is currently working with Sue Woolfenden on studies of equity in child developmental screening, with Sharon Goldfeld on the right@home trial of sustained nurse home visiting for vulnerable families, and with John Lynch on a quasi-experimental trial of sustained home visiting for Indigenous families.

Current research interests: Lynn Kemp is a nurse researcher whose work focuses on the trialing and population-wide implementation of effective interventions to address health inequalities in early childhood, including sustained nurse home visiting, volunteer home visiting and system interventions to improve policy decision-making in communities.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Kemp L, Harris E, McMahon C, Matthey S, Vimpani G, Anderson T, Schmied V, Aslam H, Zapart S. (2011) Child and family outcomes of a long-term nurse home visitation program: a randomised controlled trial. Archives of Disease in Childhood 96:533-540.

Woolfenden S, Goldfeld S, Raman S, Eapen V, Kemp L, Williams K. Inequity in child health – the importance of early childhood development. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health (accepted 2 October 2012)

Kemp L, Harris E, McMahon C, Matthey S, Vimpani G, Anderson T, Schmied V, Aslam H. Benefits of psychosocial intervention and continuity of care by child and family health nurses in the pre and postnatal period: Process evaluation. Journal of Advanced Nursing (accepted 25 September 2012)

Eastwood J, Jalaludin B, Kemp L, Phung H, Barnett B, Tobin J. (2012) Social exclusion, infant behaviour, social isolation, and maternal expectations independently predict maternal depressive symptoms. Brain and Behavior doi: 10.1002/brb3.107

Kemp L, Harris E. (2012) The challenges of establishing and researching a sustained nurse home visiting programme within the universal child and family health service system. Journal of Research in Nursing 17:139-141.

Bio: Currently retired but continues to be heavily involved.

Medical education, Lund, Sweden. Lennart Köhler worked as head of Child Health Services in a Swedish county, Professor of Social Medicine, then Social Pediatrics, and Dean 1978–1995 at the Nordic School of Public Health, Göteborg. Founder and Secretary General of the European Society for Social Pediatrics (ESSOP) 1977-1987, Honorary President from 1987. President of Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) 1987-1989. Associate Professor of Social Pediatrics, Lund; Head of Child Health Services, Malmo County.

Temporary adviser to WHO in public health and child health. Member of the Advisory Board of the WHO Kobe Centre, Japan, 1996-2001. Member of the Editorial Boards of Child: Care, Health and Development (London); European Journal of Public Health (London); International Journal of Health Sciences (Groningen); Developmental Period Medicine (Warsaw).

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+46708593976

Email
lennart@nhv.se

Website Address: www.nhv.se

Mailing Address: Nordic School of Public Health, Box 121 33, SE-402 42, Goteborg, Sweden

Collaborative projects: ESSOP work with Nick Spencer

Current research interests: Child Public Health, particularly Child Health Indicators and Child Health Inequity

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Lennart Köhler: Child Health Index in a disadvantaged part of a rich city. Nordic School of Public Health Goteborg 2010

Rigby, Michael, Köhler, Lennart, Blair, Mitch &Mechtler, Reli. Child Health Indicators for Europe. A priority for a caring society. European Journal of Public Health 2003;13 (3 Supplement):38-46

Pedersen, C. Reinhardt, Madsen Mette, Köhler Lennart. Does financial strain explain the association between children’s morbidity and parental non-employment? J Epidemiology and Community Health 2005;59:316-321

Berntsson Leeni, Köhler Lennart, Vuille Jean-Claude. Health, economy and social capital in Nordic children and their families: a comparison between 1984 and 1996. Child: Care, Health and Development 2006;32:441-451

Köhler Lennart. Health indictors for Swedish children. A contribution to a municipality index. Save the Children, Stockholm 2006

Niclasen Birgit & Köhler Lennart. Core Indicators of Children’s Health and Well-Being at the Municipal Level in Greenland. Child Indicator Res 2009; 2:221–244

Bio: Lucie Laflamme has a PhD in Industrial Relations from Laval University, Quebec, Canada.

She is currently the Head of the Department of Public Health Sciences. She has been part of various national, European and international task forces on injury prevention, including as temporary advisor for the WHO at many occasions. She has extensively published on social inequalities in injuries in childhood and youth. She is vice-president of the EUPHA section on Injury Control and Safety Promotion.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+46(0)852483362

Email
lucie.laflamme@ki.se

Website Address: ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=43014&l;=en

Mailing Address: Karolinska Institutet, Department of Public Health Sciences, Widerströmska Huset, Tomtebodavägen 18 A, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden

Current research interests:

• M-Health in emergency care (among others for children). Project: M-Health for burn diagnostics and care in South Africa. Knowledge-based partnerships. Intervention in resource poor settings in the Western Cape Province in South Africa. Multidisciplinary project.
• Medication and injuries. Health condition and unintentional injuries.
• Road traffic injuries in children and youth - social differences : Many studies in this area over the years, both in high and low and middle income countries

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures | Methodological issues: Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Regional studies (within countries) | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities? | Other: mHealth in emergency care in resource poor settings to reduce differential consequences of injuries

Selected Publications

Sengoelge M, Laflamme L, Elling B, Hasselberg M. Country level economic disparity and child mortality related to housing and injuries: a study in 26 European countries. Injury Prevention (in press).

Sengoelge M, Hasselberg M, Ormandi D, Laflamme L. Housing, income inequality and child injury mortality in Europe: a cross-sectional study. Child: Care, Health & Development (accepted).

Johansson K, Laflamme L, Eliasson M. Adolescents’ perceived safety and security in public space - A Swedish focus group study with a gender perspective. Young 2012;20:63-82.

Laflamme L, Lundberg M, Månsdotter A, Magnusson C. Dangerous dads? Ecological and longitudinal analyses of paternity leave and risk for child injury. JECH 2012;66:1001-1004. doi:10.1136/jech-2011-200181.

Burrows S, Van Niekerk A, Laflamme L. Fatal injuries in urban children in South Africa: risk distribution and potential for reduction. WHO Bulletin. Available on line 09-10-14; doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.068486.

Burrows S, Swart L-A, Laflamme L. Adolescent injuries in urban South Africa: A multi-city investigation of intentional and unintentional injuries. J Adolesc Med Health 2009;2:117-29.

Laflamme L, Reimers A, Hasselberg M, Tricai Cavalini L, Ponce de Leon A. Social determinants of child and adolescent traffic- and violence-related injuries. A multilevel study in Stockholm County. Soc Sci Med 2009;68:1826-34.

Farley C, Laflamme L, Vaez M. Bicycle helmet campaign and head injuries among children. Does poverty matter? JECH 2003;57:668-72.

Laflamme L, Engström K. Socio-economic differences in traffic-related injuries among Swedish children and youth. A cross-sectional study. BMJ 2002;324:396-7.

Bio: Anton Lager (Sweden) is trained in public health/epidemiology (PhD, MPH) at Karolinska Institutet and CHESS. He has worked with children's and young people's health at the Swedish National Institute of Public Health since 2003, interrupted by work for a national committee on young people's mental health in 2006 and research training.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+46703132739

Email
anton.lager@chess.su.se

Mailing Address: CHESS, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

Collaborative projects: Anton Lager is responsible for SNIPH's work with preventive interventions for children at risk 2011-2015; Sven Bremberg and Anders Hjern are involved in the project.

Current research interests: Anton Lager is studying life-course links between family, school, and work factors, IQ and diseases. Better knowledge in this area is needed in order to assess how promotion of cognitive skills could contribute to promotion of health and health equality. Anton Lager is also at the Swedish National Institute of Public Health where he is responsible for a project focusing national development of preventive interventions for children at risk. Two preliminary aims in this work is to make the international evidence on attachment programs and socio-emotional training, respectively, available to Swedish actors.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Social into the biological and epigenetic, Intergenerational influences | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies, Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual | Interventions: Children’s rights & equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities Policy innovation, What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Lager A, Torssander J. Causal effect of education on mortality in a quasi-experiment on 1.2 million Swedes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012;109(22):8461-6.

Lager ALager A, Modin B, De Stavola B, Vågerö D. Social origin, schooling and individual change in intelligence during childhood influence long-term mortality: a 68-year follow-up study. Int J Epidemiol 2012;41(2):398-404.

Lager A.The role of education and cognitive skills in understanding mortality inequalities. Stockholm: Karolinska Institutet; 2011. [thesis]

Lager A, Bremberg S, Vågerö D. Intelligence and mortality. Only ignorance stops progress. BMJ 2010;340(c2765). [letter]

Lager A, Bremberg S, Vågerö D. The association of early IQ and education with mortality: 65 year longitudinal study in Malmö, Sweden. BMJ 2009;339(b5282).

Bio: Catherine Law trained in paediatrics in London, UK and epidemiology and public health in Baltimore, USA. She then worked at the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK, and with regional and national Government. She is now Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology at the UCL Institute of Child Health. She is also Chair of the Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee of NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) and Programme Director for the National Institute of Health Research’s Public Health Research Programme.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
0044 207 905 2304

Email
c.law@ich.ucl.ac.uk

Mailing Address: UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford St, London WC1N 1EH, UK

Collaborative projects: I work with a number of members of the network based at UCL (UK) and elsewhere in London and through the Public Health Research Consortium, based at the University of York, UK.

Current research interests: Child public health, especially as it relates to policy. The use of evidence in policymaking. Physical growth.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures, Intergenerational influences | Methodological issues: Need to study social gradients as well as poverty | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities? | Other: Developing research which has utitlity in policymaking

Selected Publications

Pearce A, Law C, Elliman D, Cole TJ, Bedford H, the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group. Factors associated with uptake of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) and use of single antigen vaccines in a contemporary UK cohort: prospective cohort study. British Medical Journal 2008; 336: 754-7.

Hawkins SS, Lamb K, Cole TJ, Law C, the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group. Influence of moving to the UK on maternal health behaviours: prospective cohort study. British Medical Journal 2008; 336: 1052-5.

Hawkins SS, Cole TJ, Law C, the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group. An ecological systems approach to examining risk factors for early childhood overweight: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009; 63: 147-55.

Mindlin M, Jenkins R, Law C. Maternal employment and indicators of child health: a systematic review in pre-school children in OECD countries. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009; 63: 340-50.

Milne R, Law C. The NIHR Public Health Research programme: developing evidence for public health decision-makers. Journal of Public Health 2009; 31; 589-92.

Bio: Patricia Lucas (UK) is particularly interested in the ‘what works’ agenda in population interventions for child health and, in particular, child inequalities. Her expertise is in evidence syntheses and the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to better understand impact. She has worked produce reviews of evidence for impact in diverse areas to including early growth, welfare reform, food and nutrition interventions and challenging and anti-social behaviour.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
0117 3310866

Email
patricia.lucas@bristol.ac.uk

Website Address: -

Mailing Address: School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, 8 Priory Rd, Bristol BS6 1TZ

Collaborative projects: Patricia has current projects considering the potential for improving child health in the developing world through improved drinking water quality monitoring with Dave Gordon (Aquatest), and with Hein Raat and Johan Machenabach bringing together mother-child birth cohorts across Europe with a view to informing policy particularly considering health inequalities (CHICOS). She has previously worked with Catherine , Helen Roberts and Liz Waters on systematic reviews in health.

Current research interests: Migration and child health / Inequality and perinatal health / School as a mediator of socio-economic inequalities in child health / Health of adoptees and foster children

Research priorities:
Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Lucas PJ, Jessiman T and Cameron A. Healthy Start: The Use of Welfare Food Vouchers by Low-Income Parents in England, Social Policy and Society, February 2015, pp 1 - 13.

Lucas PJ, McIntosh K, Shiell A, Petticrew M, Roberts H (2008) Financial benefits for child health and well-being in low income or socially disadvantaged families in developed world countries. (Review). Cochrane Database for Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue.

Lucas PJ (2008) Family payments: a cautionary tale for policy makers (Letter) British Medical Journal 337:a1134

Oldroyd J, Burns C, Lucas PJ, Haikerwal A, Waters E (2008) The effectiveness of nutrition interventions on dietary outcomes by relative social disadvantage: a systematic review. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 62:573-579

Lucas PJ, Roberts H, Baird J, Kleijnen J and C (2007). The importance of size and growth in infancy: integrated findings from systematic reviews of scientific and lay perspectives. Child: Care, Health & Development 33(5):635-640

Lucas P; Liabo K (2004) Breakfast Clubs and School Fruit Schemes. NCB Highlight No. 206

Bio: 1969 MD, 1976 PhD, 1977 Ass Prof, 1983 Acting professor, 1985 Full professor of Pediatrics, Linköping univerfsity. Since 2010 Professor emeritus, in full activity.

Published ca 400 original scientific publications eg in Nature x 2, Lancet x 2, New Engl J Med x 3 etc and been main turor for >20 PhD students who have presented their thesis.

Presently: Chairman of Diabetes Research Centre, Linköping university; Chairman of International Diabetes Federation´s Task Force f Diabetes in children and adolescents

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+4613 286854

Email
Johnny.Ludvigsson@liu.se

Mailing Address: Div of Pediatrics, University Hospital, SE-58185 Linköping, Sweden

Collaborative projects: Socioeconomic Inequalities and Child Health: Elucidating pathways from an international perspective together with Louise Seguin; Nicholas Spencer; Kate Pickett; Elizabeth Quon; Anders Hjern; Faresjö Tomas; Ludvigsson Johnny; Gilles Paradis; Dr Marie Lambert; Sonia Lupien; Lise.Gauvin

Current research interests:

1. Etiology and pathogenesis of Type 1 diabetes
2. Prediction and prevention of Type 1 diabetes
3. Immune intervention in Type 1 diabetes
4. The importance of environmental factors ( eg socio-psychological) for development of diabetes ( type 1 and 2), obesity, allergy, rheumatoid arthritis, celiac disease etc.
5. Project leader for ABIS ( All Babies in Southeast Sweden), a prospective cohort of 17000 children born 1997-1999.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty), Stress and allostatic load, Social into the biological and epigenetic | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies, Regional studies (within countries)

Selected Publications

Bojestig M, Arnqvist H, Hermansson G, Karlberg B, Ludvigsson J. Declining incidence of nephropathy in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. New Engl J Med 1994:330:15-18.

Ludvigsson J, et al GAD treatment and insulin secretion in recent-onset type 1 diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2008 Oct 30;359(18):1909-20.

Sherry N, Hagopian W, Ludvigsson J, et al Teplizumab for treatment of type 1 diabetes (Protégé study): 1-year results from a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2011 Aug 6;378(9790):487-97.

Karlén J, Ludvigsson J, Frostell A, Theodorsson E, Faresjö T. Cortisol in hair measured in young adults - a biomarker of major life stressors? BMC Clin Pathol. 2011 Oct 25;11(1):12.

Ludvigsson J, et al GAD65 antigen therapy in recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus. N Engl J Med. 2012 Feb 2;366(5):433-42.

Bio: Sonia Lupien is Scientific Director of the Mental Health Research Centre Fernand Seguin at Hospital Louis H Lafontaine, and is an associate professor with the Department of Psychiatry at Université de Montréal. She is also the Founder and Director of the Centre for Studies on Human Stress (www.humanstress.ca). Dr. Lupien’s research interests focus on the effects of stress over the human lifespan.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
(514) 251-4015 extension 2337

Email
sonia.lupien@umontreal.ca

Website Address: www.humanstress.ca

Mailing Address: Centre de recherche Fernand Seguin Hôpital Louis H Lafontaine, 7401 rue Hochelaga, Montréal, Québec H1N 3M5

Collaborative projects: The ELDEQ study with Louise Seguin

Current research interests:

• Effects of stress (particularly stress hormones) on learning and cognitive function across the lifespan
• Effects of stress throughout development
• Effects of socioeconomic status on stress hormones and cognitive function across the lifespan

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty), Stress and allostatic load, Social into the biological and epigenetic | Methodological issues: Need to study social gradients as well as poverty, Multi-level studies - Society, Family &Individual | Interventions: Children’s rights & equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities Policy innovation, What works in reducing child health inequalities? | Other research priorities: New interventions to prevent the negative effects of stress on child development (e.g. The Destress for Success Program developed by the Centre for Studies on Human Stress - www.humanstress.ca).

Selected Publications

Marin, M.F*., Pilgrim, K.*, Lupien, S.J. (2010) Modulatory Effects of Stress on Reactivated Emotional Memories. Psychoneuroendocrinology. May 12 [Epub ahead of print].

Juster RP*, McEwen BS, Lupien SJ. (2009) Allostatic load biomarkers of chronic stress and impact on health and cognition. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. Nov 12 (Epub ahead of print).

Lupien SJ, McEwen BS, Gunnard MR, Heim C. (2009). Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on brain, behaviour and cognition. Nat Rev Neurosci. June 10(6) : 434-45

Ouellet-Morin I, Dionne G, Pérusse D, Lupien SJ, Arsenault L, Barr RG, Tremblay RE, Boivin M. (2009). Daytime cortisol secretion in 6-month-old twins: genetic and environmental contributions as a function of early familial adversity. Biol Psychiatry, Mar 1;65(5):409-17. Epub 2008 Nov 14.

Lupien SJ, King S, Meaney MJ, McEwen BS. (2001). Can Poverty Get Under Your Skin?: Basal Cortisol Levels and Cognitive Function in Children from Low and High Socioeconomic Status. Development and Psychopathology, 13:651-674.

Lupien SJ, King S, Meaney MJ, McEwen BS. (2000). Child's stress hormone levels correlate with mother's socioeconomic status and depressive state. Biological Psychiatry, 48:976-980.

Bio: John Lynch is Professor of Public Health Epidemiology in the Sansom Institute in the Division of Health Sciences at the University of South Australia, and Professor of Epidemiology at University of Bristol (UK). He was previously in the Dept. of Epidemiology at the Uni. Michigan (USA) and was a Canada Research Chair in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University in Montreal (Canada).

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+618 83022640

Email
john.lynch@unisa.edu.au

Mailing Address: University of South Australia, City East Campus (Playford P4-27B), CEA - 01, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia

Current research interests: John Lynch's research interests include early life determinants of health, early childhood development, lifecourse processes regulating health behaviours, population health monitoring, evidence-based public health and improving the public health research-policy nexus.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

D’Onise K, Lynch J, Sawyer M, McDermott R. Systematic review of pre-school programs on child health. Soc Sci Med 2010; 70: 1423-1440.

D’Onise K, Lynch J, McDermott R. Can attending preschool reduce the risk of tobacco smoking in adulthood? The effects of Kindergarten Union participation in South Australia. J Epidemiol Community Health 2010 (in press)

Lynch J, Law C, Brinkman S, Sawyer M. Inequalities in Child Healthy Development: Some Challenges for Effective Implementation. Soc Sci Med 2010 (in press)

Bio: Dr. Matthews is currently Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Epidemiology, and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh where she also is Director of the Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Research Training Program. She did her undergraduate and graduate work in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of Texas at Austin, respectively. Her research on the development of psychosocial risk factors in cardiovascular risk in relation to SES and ethnicity has been ongoing since 1983 and supported by NIH NHLBI. She is a member of Institute of Medicine and has served as President of American Psychosomatic Society and Health Psychology Division of APA, and Editor in Chief of Health Psychology. She was a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network on SES and health, which has now ended.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
412 648 7158 (USA)

Email
matthewska@upmc.edu

Mailing Address: Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA

Current research interests:

• Development of psychosocial risk factors for heart disease and hypertension
• SES and ethnic/racial differences in cardiovascular risk
• Determinants of subclinical cardiovascular disease
• Relationship of sleep and heart disease/hypertension
• Changes in health during the menopausal transition and their determinants

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Stress and allostatic load | Methodological issues: Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual

Selected Publications

Matthews KA, Gallo LC. Psychological perspectives on pathways linking socioeconomic status and physical health. Annu Rev Psychol. 62:501-30, 2011. PMID: 20636127

Mezick EJ, Hall M, Matthews KA. Sleep duration and ambulatory blood pressure in black and white adolescents. Hypertension. 59:747-52, 2012. PMID: 22275538 PMC – In process

Matthews KA, Schwartz JE, Cohen S. Indices of socioeconomic position across the life course as predictors of coronary calcification in black and white men and women: Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. Soc Sci Med.73:768-74, 2011. PMC3167073

Midei AJ, Matthews KA. Interpersonal violence in childhood as a risk factor for obesity: A systematic review of the literature and proposed pathways. Obesity Rev. 12:159-72, 2011. PMCID: PMC3104728

Low CA, Salomon K, Matthews KA. Chronic life stress, cardiovascular reactivity, and subclinical cardiovascular disease in adolescents. Psychosom Med. 71:927-31, 2009. PMCID: PMC2783997

Bio: I have completed my undergraduate studies in clinical psychology in 2008 in Brazil, then I relocated to France to pursue a master’s degree in clinical psychology. In 2011, while completing my master’s studies, I had the opportunity collaborate with Dr. Sylvana Côté (University of Montreal). Through this collaboration, I was first exposed to large longitudinal data sets of individuals. In 2012, I was invited by Dr. Côté to pursue a doctoral program in public health (option: epidemiology). am now starting my 3rd year of my Ph.D. program.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Post graduate

Telephone
(514) 238-3913

Email
jrachel@gmail.com

Mailing Address: Montreal, Canada

Current research interests: I am particularly interested in the importance of the timing of exposure to poverty and in potential mechanisms of the poverty-behaviour problems link (i.e. family processes, parenting, and parental psychopathology) that might come into play during different developmental periods. I adopt a life course approach to examine the association between poverty and behaviour problems from early childhood to adolescence. My research emphasizes the need to investigate behaviour problems as developmental disorders and to confront differences in behaviour problems relative to poverty.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Mazza, J. R., Boivin, M., Tremblay, R. E., Michel, G., Salla, J., Lambert, J., Zunzunegui, M. V., Côté, S. M. (2016). Poverty and behavior problems trajectories from 1.5 to 8 years of age: Is the gap widening between poor and non-poor children? Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 51(8), 1083-1092. doi:10.1007/s00127-016-1252-1

Mazza, J. R., Pingault, J., Booij, L., Boivin, M., Tremblay, R., Lambert, J., Zunzunegui, M. V. Côté, S. M. (2016). Poverty and behavior problems during early childhood: The mediating role of maternal depression symptoms and parenting. International Journal of Behavioral Development. doi:10.1177/0165025416657615

Bio: Jennifer J. McGrath, Ph.D., M.P.H. received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (Dual Specialization: Child Clinical and Behavioral Medicine) from Bowling Green State University, Ohio and her M.P.H. in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Training Program of the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at Concordia University, Montreal and the Director of the Pediatric Public Health Psychology laboratory. Dr. McGrath is a CIHR New Investigator (2009-2014), the 2009 Concordia University Research Award Fellow, and the 2009 Canadian Psychological Association Mentor of the Year. Dr. McGrath is the principal investigator of 7 grants with funding totaling over $3.6 million from CIHR, FQRSC, and CTCRI, among others. Additionally, she is a co-investigator on 5 additional grants with funding totaling over $3 million.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
(514) 848-2424 x5207

Email
jennifer.mcgrath@concordia.ca

Website Address: http://pphp.concordia.ca

Mailing Address: Concordia University, Department of Psychology, PY139.3, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H4B 1R6 Canada

Collaborative projects: I am a co-investigator on the ELDEQ-Sante Longitudinal Cohort project led by Dr. Louise Seguin.

Current research interests:My research broadly focuses on the pathogenesis of subclinical cardiovascular disease markers across childhood and adolescence as mediated by potential behavioral, environmental, and psychological mechanisms that influence these markers, and possibly confer susceptibility to developing cardiovascular disease. The overarching aims of my research program have been threefold. First, I am examining socioeconomic position and stress exposure as possible determinants of health inequalities in children and adolescents. Disease is not equitably distributed across the population; rather, individuals of lower socioeconomic status (measured by education, occupation, or wealth) or who experience more stressful events have higher rates of disease. Reducing health disparities is an important public health priority; however, the means by which the social environment becomes translated into physiological and psychological processes that influence health remains unclear. Of particular interest is how contextual effects (at the neighborhood level) contribute to the disease process. Second, I am investigating the initiation, establishment, and maintenance of lifestyle behaviors in childhood and adolescence associated with later cardiovascular disease. Specifically, I am interested in learning how children acquire healthy and unhealthy habits related to smoking, physical activity and sedentary behavior, diet, and sleep. Third, I am attempting to elucidate whether autonomic and neuroendocrine responses to stress are pathogenic mechanisms associated with cardiovascular risk factors, such as metabolic syndrome and obesity, in children and adolescents. These three overarching research aims are being addressed through four longitudinal cohort projects: The Healthy Heart Project, QUALITY Cohort, ELDEQ, and AdoQuest.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty), Stress and allostatic load, Social into the biological and epigenetic | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies, Need to define poverty / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty, Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual / Regional studies (within countries) / Which indicators?: for example, perception of health vs. objective measures of health (these may be more reliable in studying mechanisms) | Interventions: Children's rights & equity - research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities | Other: Pathophysiological mechanisms by which stress and socioeconomic inequalities get "under the skin"

Selected Publications

Chaiton, M., Sabiston, C., O'Loughlin, J., McGrath, J.J., Maximova, K., & Lambert, M. (2009). A structural equation model relating adiposity, psychosocial indicators of body image, and depressive symptoms among adolescents. International Journal of Obesity, 33, 588-596.

Maximova, K., McGrath, J.J., Barnett, T., Lambert, M., O'Loughlin, J., & Paradis, G. (2008). Do you see what I see? Exposure to obesity and weight status misperception among children and adolescents. International Journal of Obesity, 32, 1008-1015. (Time Magazine Feature by Dr. Sanjay Gupta)

Belanger, M., O'Loughlin, J., Okoli, C.T., McGrath, J.J., Setia, M., Guyon, L., & Gervais, A. (2008). Nicotine dependence symptoms among young never-smokers exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke. Addictive Behaviors, 33, 1557-1563.

McGrath, J.J., Barnett, T., Lambert, M., O'Loughlin, J., Paradis, G., Alamian, A., & Ho, T. (2007). Cardiovascular risk factors in boys and girls. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 176, S5-S11.

McGrath, J.J., Matthews, K.A., & Brady, S.S. (2006). Individual versus neighborhood socioeconomic status and race as predictors of adolescent ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate. Social Science and Medicine, 63, 1442-1453.

Bio: My current role is a biostatistician and postdoctoral fellow in the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. My PhD from the University of York, UK, examined the relationships between child development and the family environment using the Millennium Cohort Study. I have previously worked in UK universities in community health epidemiology.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+61 (0) 39345 4741

Email
Fiona.Mensah@mcri.edu.au

Mailing Address: Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia

Collaborative projects: I am currently working with Professor Nick Spencer and Dr Susan Woolfenden on proposals for studies of inequity in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children.

Current research interests: I support three Australian cohort studies of child and family health, the Early Language in Victoria Study, the Maternal Health Study, and the Physical Health and Biomarkers Module of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. I also support a number of trials of early interventions to improve child and family health including the right@home trial of intensive nurse home visiting. In each of these studies my research has a focus on health inequity, pathways to health and equity in health care access.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Social into the biological and epigenetic / Intergenerational influences small box where they can check | Methodological issues: Which indicators?: for example, perception of health vs. objective measures of health

Selected Publications

Kiernan KE, Mensah FK. (2011) Poverty, Family Resources and Children’s Early Educational Attainment: The Mediating Role of Parenting. British Educational Research Journal 37(2), 317-336.

Mensah FK, Kiernan KE. (2010) Gender differences in educational attainment: influences of the family environment. British Educational Research Journal 36, 239-250.

Kiernan KE, Mensah FK. (2009) Poverty, Maternal Depression, Family Status and Children’s Cognitive and Behavioural development in Early Childhood: a longitudinal study. Journal of Social Policy 38, 569-588.

Mensah FK, Hobcraft J. (2008) Childhood deprivation, health and development: associations with adult health in the 1958 and 1970 British prospective birth cohort studies. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 62, 599-606.

Kiernan KE, Mensah FK. (2009) Maternal indicators in pregnancy and children’s infancy that signal future outcomes for children’s development, behaviour and health: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study. Report commissioned by The UK National Child and Maternal Health Observatory (ChiMat) and Department of Health.

Bio: Arijit Nandi holds a Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Health. He is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed at the Institute for Health and Social Policy and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health. An epidemiologist by training, Arijit is broadly interested in the impact of social and economic factors on population health. A former Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at Harvard University, Arijit received a PhD from the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+1 514-398-1941

Email
arijit.nandi@mcgill.ca

Website Address: -

Mailing Address: Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University, 1130 Pine Ave. W., Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A 1A3

Collaborative projects: MACHEquity (Examining the Impact of Social Policies on Health Equity: How Policies Designed to Reduce Poverty and Gender Inequality Affect Morbidity and Mortality in Children and Women) (with David Gordon and Jody Heymann)

Current research interests: (1) assessing multilevel associations between economic characteristics and population health; (2) investigating the relation between social and economic policies and population health and health disparities in a global context; (3) estimating causal effects of economic interventions on mental health.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty); Social into the biological and epigenetic | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies; Need to study social gradients as well as poverty; Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual; Regional studies (within countries); Root cause analysis to inform policy change | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Quamruzzaman A, Rodríguez JMM, Heymann J, Kaufman JS, Nandi A. Are tuition-free primary education policies associated with lower infant and neonatal mortality in low-and-middle-income countries? Social Science & Medicine 2014;120:153-9.

Hajizadeh M, Nandi A, Heymann J. Social inequality in infant mortality: what explains variation across developing countries? Social Science & Medicine 2014;101:36-46.

Nandi A, Glymour MM, Subramanian SV. Association between socioeconomic status, health behaviors, and all-cause mortality in the United States. Epidemiology 2014;25:170-7.

Nandi A, Sweet E, Kawachi I, Heymann J, Galea S. Associations between macrolevel economic factors and weight distributions in low- and middle-income countries: a multilevel analysis of 200 000 adults in 40 countries. American Journal of Public Health 2014;104:e162-71.

Nandi A, Glymour MM, Kawachi I, VanderWeele TJ. Using marginal structural models to estimate the direct effect of adverse childhood social conditions on onset of stroke, heart disease, and diabetes. Epidemiology 2012;23:223-32.

Bio: racticed clinical medicine (Dr. Med) and public health (MSc) in Burkina Faso. Currently research assistant with the IRSPUM, Université de Montréal, and a PhD canditate in Public health. Collaborating with the Centre National de Recherche en Santé de Nouna- CRSN (Burkina Faso) for research and with the Institut de Formation en Démographie -IFORD (Cameroon) for research and teaching.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Post graduate researcher

Telephone
+1-514-343-6111 # (1)5482

Email
b.nikiema@umontreal.ca

Website Address: -

Mailing Address: 1420 Boulevard du Mont-Royal, C.P. 6128, Succ. "Centre-Ville", Montréal, Qc H3C 3J7

Collaborative projects: Working with Louise Séguin and Lise Gauvin on a longitudinal study of child development, seeking to understand the links between poverty and physical health in childhood.

Current research interests: Poverty and health in childhood / Maternal and child's health in Sub-Saharan Africa / Inequalities in access and utilization of health services / Measuring and understanding gender inequalities in access to health care (Sub-Saharan Africa)

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies

Selected Publications

Nikiema B, Spencer N, Séguin L (2009). Poverty and chronic illness in early childhood: a comparison between UK and Quebec. Accepted for publication in Pediatrics.

Nikièma B, Zunzunegui MV, Séguin L, Gauvin L, Potvin L (2008). Poverty and cumulative hospitalization in infancy and early childhood in the Quebec birth cohort: a puzzling pattern of association. Matern Child Health J. 12(4):534-44.

Séguin L, Nikiéma B, Gauvin L, Zunzunegui MV, Xu Q (2007). Duration of poverty and child health in the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development: longitudinal analysis of a birth cohort. Pediatrics.119(5):e1063-70.

Nikiéma B, Beninguisse G, Haggerty JL (2009). Providing information on pregnancy complications during antenatal visits: unmet educational needs in sub-Saharan Africa. Health Policy Plan. 24(5):367-76.

Nikiema B, Haddad S and Potvin L (2008). Women Bargaining to Seek Healthcare: Norms, Domestic Practices, and Implications in Rural Burkina Faso. World Development 36 (4):608–624

Bio: Trained in biological anthropology, nutritional sciences and epidemiology, Kate Pickett is Professor of Epidemiology and Programme Leader for the MPhil/PhD in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. She is an NIHR Career Scientist, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation and A Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts. She is co-author with Richard Wilkinson, of The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, and a director of The Equality Trust.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
01904 321377

Email
kp6@york.ac.uk

Website Address: https://hsciweb.york.ac.uk/research/public/Staff.aspx?ID=1197

Mailing Address: Department of Health Sciences, Seebohm Rowntree Building, Area 2, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK

Current research interests: One programme of research focuses on the social determinants of health, including the influences of such factors as social class, income inequality, neighbourhood context and ethnic density on such varied outcomes as mortality and morbidity, teenage birth, obesity, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and health-related behaviours. A second research agenda focuses on smoking in pregnancy; its causal role in relation to behavioural problems in children and its psychosocial context.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Social into the biological and epigenetic, Intergenerational influences | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual / Root cause analysis to inform policy change | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Pickett KE and Pearl M. Multi-level analyses of neighborhood social environments and health outcomes: a critical review. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2001;55:111-122.

Pickett KE, Wilkinson RG. Child well-being and income inequality in rich societies: Ecological cross sectional study. BMJ 2007; 335(7629):1080-1086.

Pickett KE, Wilkinson RG. People like us: The effects of ethnic group density. Ethnicity and Health 2008;13:321-334.

Pickett KE, Wilkinson, R. G., & Wakschlag, L. S. The psychosocial context of pregnancy smoking and quitting in the Millennium Cohort Study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009; 63;474-480.

Wilkinson RG, Pickett KE. The consequences of relative deprivation. Annual Review of Sociology, 2009; 35:493-511.

Bio: Anna has been carrying out a range of research relating to child health inequalities at the UCL Institute of Child Health since 2004, including her PhD which examined how policies in the early years (such as childcare) influence inequalities in health (e.g. obesity). As part of her UK Medical Research Council fellowship she is currently using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study and the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children to contrast the social patterning of child health, and mediating pathways, in Australia and the UK. She also plans to utilise data from the Southampton Women’s Survey to consider why health inequalities emerge so early on.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
0207 905 2761

Email
anna.pearce@ucl.ac.uk

Website Address: Profile - UCL, Institutional Research Information Service

Mailing Address: UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH

Current research interests: Gaining a better understanding of child health inequalities and how policy might intervene. In particular: the use of longitudinal/cohort data and cross-country comparisons, and more recently the application of causal modelling, for assessing (or anticipating) policy impacts of child health inequalities.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Intergenerational influence | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Which indicators?: for example, perception of health vs. objective measures of health (these may be more reliable in studying mechanisms) / Root cause analysis to inform policy change | Interventions: Children’s rights & equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities Policy innovation / What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Bannink, R.Pearce, A, Hope, S. Family income and young adolescents’ perceived social position: associations with self-esteem and life satisfaction in the UK Millennium Cohort Study, Archive in Disease in Childhood, 2016;0:1–5. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2015-309651

Pearce, A., Marshall, M, Bedford, H., Lynch, J. Barriers to childhood immunisation: Findings from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. Vaccine, 2015, 33(29):3377-83

Lewis, H., Hope, S., Pearce, A. Parent and teacher reports of children’s psychological wellbeing, exploring and comparing the social gradient. Arch Dis Child, 100 (1), 38-41

Pearce, A., Lewis, H., Law,C. The role of poverty in explaining health variations in 7 year old children from different family structures: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Feb 2013. 67(2):181-9.

Pearce, A.; Li, L.; Abbas, J.; Ferguson, B.; Graham, H.; Law, C. Is childcare associated with the risk of overweight and obesity in the early years? Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. International Journal of Obesity. 2010. Jul; 34(7):1160-8.

Pearce, A.; Law, C; Elliman, D; Cole, TJ; Bedford, H. Factors associated with uptake of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) and use of single antigen vaccines in a contemporary UK cohort: prospective cohort study. British Medical Journal. 2008. 5; 336(7647):754-7.

Bio: Elizabeth Quon is completing her doctorate in clinical psychology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer McGrath. Her thesis examines how subjective socioeconomic status and income inequality influence child and adolescent health outcomes. She completed a Master's in clinical psychology in 2010. Elizabeth is funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Post graduate researcher

Telephone
+1 514-848-2424 x5287

Email
e_quon@live.concordia.ca

Website Address:

Mailing Address: 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. PY-048, Montreal (QC) H4B 1R6 CANADA

Collaborative projects: Socioeconomic Inequalities and Child Health: Elucidating pathways from an international perspective together with Louise Seguin, Nicholas Spencer, Kate Pickett, Johnny Ludvigsson, Anders Hjern, Faresjö Tomas, Ludvigsson Johnny, Gilles Paradis, Dr Marie Lambert, Sonia Lupien, Lise Gauvin

Current research interests: Subjective socioeconomic status; Inequalities in adolescent health; Income inequality; Neighbourhood socioeconomic status.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Stress and allostatic load | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual / Which indicators?: for example, perception of health vs. objective measures of health

Quon, E., McGrath, J. J., & Roy-Gagnon, M.-H. (2012). Generation of immigration and body mass index in Canadian youth. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jss037.

Quon, E., & McGrath, J. J. (March, 2011). Effects of acculturation on overweight in Canadian immigrant youth. Poster presented at the 69th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, San Antonio, TX.

Bio:

• Physician specialised in community medicine and public health
• Methodolgy of social sciences and social epidemiology
• Business administration in the setting of public health

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
0031 10 70 38 580

Email
h.raat@erasmusmc.nl

Website Address: - erasmusmc.nl

Mailing Address: P.O.Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Collaborative projects: CIHR project.

Current research interests:

• Pathways between social disadvantage and adverse health outcomes
• RCTs and cRCTs of inteventions to improve population health
• E-health interventions (E-health4Uth)
• Methodology of "Patient Reported Outcomes" (PROs) and health-related quality of life

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Social into the biological and epigenetic | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to define poverty / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual / Regional studies (within countries) / Which indicators?: for example, perception of health vs. objective measures of health | Interventions: Children’s rights & equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities Policy innovation / What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Selma H. Bouthoorn, Romy Gaillard, Eric A.P. Steegers, Albert Hofman, Vincent WV Jaddoe, Frank J. van Lenthe, Hein Raat, Ethnic differences in blood pressure and hypertensive complications during pregnancy; the Generation R Study. (Hypertension. 2012;60:00-00) (published online May 21, 2012)

Amy van Grieken, Nicole PM Ezendam, Winifred D Paulis, Johannes C van der Wouden, Hein Raat, Primary prevention of overweight in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of interventions aiming to decrease sedentary behaviour. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2012, 9:61 doi:10.1186/1479-5868-9-61 (Published: 28 May 2012

Kruizinga I, Jansen W, de Haan CL, van der Ende J, Carter AS, ... ... Hein Raat (2012) Reliability and Validity of the Dutch Version of the Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA). PLoS ONE 7(6): e38762. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038762 (Published: 08/06/2012) http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038762

Jeanne M. Landgraf, Ineke Vogel, Rianne Oostenbrink, Margriet E. van Baar, Hein Raat, Parent-reported health outcomes in infants/toddlers: measurement properties and clinical validity of the ITQOL-SF47. Qual Life Res 2012, DOI 10.1007/s11136-012-0177-8

Hein Raat, Anne Wijtzes, Vincent W.V. Jaddoe, Henriëtte A. Moll, Albert Hofman, Johan P. Mackenbach, The health impact of social disadvantage in early childhood; the Generation R study, Early Hum Dev 87 (2011) 729–733, doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2011.08.022

Hein RaatH, van Rossem L, Jaddoe VW, Landgraf JM, Feeny D, Moll HA, Hofman A, Mackenbach JP. The Generation R study: a candidate gene study and genome-wide association study (GWAS) on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of mothers and young children Qual Life Res. 2010 Dec;19(10):1439-46. Epub 2010 Oct 28. (DOI 10.1007/s11136-010-9773-7)

Bio: Luis Rajmil is senior researcher at the Agency for Health Information, Assessment and Quality (former Catalan Agency for HTA) and collaborator at the Municipal Institute of Medical Research (both in Barcelona, Spain). He received his MD degree in Argentina (1976) and trained in Pediatrics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1981), obtained his MPH degree at the University of Barcelona (1991) and also completed a PHD (1998). His research work has been devoted to child health measurement, health-related quality of life, mental health and health services research in children, with special interest on the inequalities in the use of health services in children. He was Principal investigator of different European and Spanish projects related to measures of health and quality of life in children and adolescents, such as the development of the European KIDSCREEN measure and the Spanish version of the Child Health and Illness. He is an advisor to the Spanish, Catalan, and Barcelona Health Interview Surveys board. He was Associate Editor of the Quality of Life Research Journal for the period 2006-2009.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+34 93 551 3922

Email
lrajmil@imim.es

Website Address: www.aatrm.net

Mailing Address: Roc Boronat 81-95 2nd Fl. Barcelona 08005 Spain

Collaborative projects: Adaptation and uses of health status measures, and evaluation of Primary Care in pediatric population with Barbara Starfield (died June 2011).

Current research interests: Development and application of child health status measures. As part of the European Kidscreen group he was responsible for the analysis of inequalities in child health. He is interested in the analysis of equity in the use of primary pediatric health care as well as specialty care in Spain and worldwide.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Regional studies (within countries) / Which indicators?: for example, perception of health vs. objective measures of health (these may be more reliable in studying mechanisms) | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Spencer NJ, Rajmil L, Taylor-Robinson D, Panagiotopoulos T on behalf of ISSOP. ISSOP Position Statement on the impact of austerity on child health and well being, 2015, 12 pgs.

Berra S, Tebé C, Erhart M, Ravens-Sieberer U, Auquier P, Detmar S, Herdman M, Alonso J, Rajmil L, and the European KIDSCREEN group (2009) Correlates of use of health care services by children and adolescents from 11 European countries. Med Care. 47(2) 161-167.

Analitis F, Klein Velderman M, Ravens-Sieberer U, Detmar S, Erhart M, Herdman M, Berra S, Alonso J, Rajmil L, and the European KIDSCREEN group. (2009) Being bullied: associated factors in children and adolescents 8-18 years old in 11 European countries. Pediatrics 123 (2):569-577.

Pueyo MJ, Serra-Sutton V, Alonso J, Starfield B, Rajmil L (2007). Self-reported social class in adolescents: validity and relationship with gradients in self-reported health. BMC Health Serv Res. 7:151.

Von Rueden U, Gosch A, Rajmil L, Bisegger C, Ravens-Sieberer U, and the European KIDSCREEN group. (2006). Socioeconomic determinants of health-related quality of life in childhood and adolescence: results from a European study. J Epidemiol Community Health. 60:130-5.

Rajmil L, Borrell C, Starfield B, Fernandez E, Serra V, Schiaffino A, Segura A. The quality of care and influence of double health care coverage in Catalonia (Spain). Arch Dis Child. 2000;83:211-4.

Bio: Helen has a particular interest in the translation of research evidence into policy and practice right across health, education and social care; inequalities in health (and what can be done about them) and the voice of the patient, user and citizen. She writes on the lay expertise of users of services (including child users); the synthesis of different kinds of research evidence, and implementation issues. She is an editor with the Cochrane Public Health Review Group, and sits on the International Advisory Committee of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St Michael's Hospital, Toronto.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
44-207-905-2190

Email
h.roberts@ich.ucl.ac.uk

Website Address: - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich

Mailing Address: Professor Helen Roberts, General and Adolescent Paediatrics Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH

Collaborative projects: I work with Catherine Law on a number of projects, including an evaluation of a weight management programme (in which Patricia Lucas is also involved), a project on the extent to which parental employment can improve child health, and a Department of Health funded policy research unit on child and adolescent health.

Current research interests:

• Inequalities in child health
• The voice of the child and young person
• The use of sound research for advocacy

Research priorities:
Methodological issues: Root cause analysis to inform policy change | Interventions: Children’s rights & equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities / Policy innovation / What works in reducing child health inequalities?.

Selected Publications

Roberts H (2012) What works in reducing inequalities in child health? Bristol, Policy Press

Petticrew M, Roberts H (2006). Systematic reviews in the social sciences. Oxford: Blackwell.

Jones A, Steinbach R, Roberts H, Goodman A and Green J. Rethinking passive transport: Bus fare exemptions and young people's wellbeing. Health and Place, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.01.003

Roberts H, Petticrew M, Liabo K, Macintyre S. 'The Anglo-Saxon disease': a pilot study of the barriers to and facilitators of the use of randomised controlled trials of social programmes in an international context, J Epidemiol Community Health jech-2011-200313 Published Online First: 12 March 2012 doi:10.1136/jech-2011-200313

Stevens, M., Shiell, A., Roberts H. (2010). Economic Evidence for interventions in children's social care. Child and Family Social Work 15, 145-154.

Stevens M, Liabo K, Witherspoon S, Roberts H, (2009). What do practitioners want from research, what do funders fund, and what needs to be done to know more about what works in the new world of children's services?. Evidence and Policy 5(3), 281-294

Roberts H. (2006). What Works for Children? Reflections on building research and development in a children's charity. Journal of Children’s Services 1(2), 51-60.

Bio: I am currently involved in the ESRC funded Priority Network on Gender Inequality and Production (GeNet)) and the ESRC Centre for the Study of Learning and Life Chances in the Knowledge Economies (Llakes). I am the Director of an International Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme on Productive Youth Development, funded by the Jacobs Foundation, involving comparative research and collaboration with the University of Michigan, the Max Plank Institute for Human Development in Berlin, the University of Jena, the University of Stockholm, and the Helsinki University Collegium for Advanced Studies. I am also a member of the International Collaborative for the Analysis of Pathways from Childhood to Adulthood (CAPCA) organised by the University of Michigan.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
020 7612 62238

Email
I.Schoon@ioe.ac.uk

Website Address: -

Mailing Address: 55-59 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AL

Collaborative projects: Evans, G. W., Ricciuti, H. N., Hope, S., Schoon, I., Bradley, R. H., Corwyn, R. F., et al. (2009). Crowding and cognitive development. The mediating role of maternal responsiveness among 36-month-old children. Environment and Behaviour, http://eab.sagepub.com/cgi/rapidpdf/0013916509333509v0013916509333501.

Current research interests: My research interest lies with the study of human development in context, in particular the study of risk and resilience, the realization of individual potential in a changing socio-historical context, social equalities in attainment, health and well-being, and the intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantage.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Intergenerational influences | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to define poverty / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Schoon, I. & Bartely, M. (2008). Growing up in poverty: the role of human capability and resilience. The Psychologist, 21:24-27

Schoon, I. (2007). Adaptations to changing times: Agency in Context. International Journal of Psychology, 42, 94-101

Schoon, I. (2006). Risk and Resilience: Adaptations to changing times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schoon, I., Hansson, L. & Salmela-Aro, K. (2005). Combining work and family life: contrasting the psychological well-being of married and divorced men and women in Estonia, Finland and the UK. European Psychologist, 10, 309-319

Schoon, I., Sacker, A. & Bartley M. (2003). Socio-economic adversity and psychosocial adjustment. A developmental-contextual perspective. Social Science and Medicine, 57, 1001-1015

Bio: Retired professor and now researcher at the same Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the Université de Montréal. Member of the Institute of Research in Public Health of the Université de Montreal and of the Lea-Roback research center. From the beginning my research was always about the relationships between poverty and child health or maternal health. For the last 15 years I have been involved with my research team in the analysis of data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development. We examine longitudinally the links between diverse expositions to poverty and their timing, and child physical health to clarify the mechanisms underlying these links.

After a training in medicine and pediatrics at the Université de Montréal I specialized in Public Health (Maternal and Child Health) at the University of California at Berkeley. Beside my appointment at the Université de Montréal as a professor I was also consultant for Children and Youths programs of our Public Health Departments from which I am now retired.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
514-343-7665

Email
Louise.Seguin@umontreal.ca

Website Address: -

Mailing Address: Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7

Collaborative projects: List collaborative projects: - Poverty and chronic illness in early childhood: a comparison between UK and Quebec, with Nick Spencer and Béatrice Nikiéma | Longitudinal analysis of the Quebec birth cohort : pathways between early childhood poverty, stress, child health, cardiovascular risk factors and associated secular trends, and resiliency. L. Séguin (PI), with L. Gauvin, S. Lupien, J. Lynch, J. McGrath, P. Newacheck, J.O’Loughlin, M.-V. Zunzunegui and other co-researchers.

Current research interests: Among the social determinants of health, my research interests focus on poverty and child health looking at the dynamics in time of this relationship in rich countries and at the mechanisms and pathways underlying it. For these analyses we use the data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development, a representative birth cohort followed up annually since 1998. Taking advantage of the longitudinal data we analysed the differential effect of cumulative, lagged or concurrent poverty through multilevel analysis. We are also interested in a better understanding of the impact of multiple risk exposure for children living in poverty conditions especially during the early years of life on their health later during childhood and adolescence. We are currently examining the trajectories of family poverty and child health, and the factors that are linked with remaining in “good” health especially for poor children. We will soon begin to look at the level of stress and of reactivity to stressors and, their impact on health among poor children compare with non-poor ones. In all these analysis we aim at making a distinction between the influences of a low family income as such and the generally low level of education of poor mothers.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty), Stress and allostatic load | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to define poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Nikiéma B, Spencer N, Séguin L, Poverty and chronic illness in early childhood: a comparison between UK and Quebec, Pediatrics, accepted.

Ehounoux NZ, Zunzunegui MV, Séguin L, Nikiema B, Gauvin L, Duration of lack of money for basic needs and growth delay in the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development Birth Cohort, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009, 63:45-49

Séguin, L, Nikiéma, N, Gauvin L, Zunzunegui MV, Duration of Poverty and Child Health in the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development Birth Cohort, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2009, 63:45-49

Séguin L, Potvin L, Xu Q, Zunzunegui MV, Gauvin L, Frohlich KL, Understanding which dimensions of socio-economic status influence toddlers’ health : Unique impact of lack of money for basic needs in Quebec’s birth cohort, J Epidemiology Community Health, 2005, 59:42-48

Michael S. Kramer, John Lydon, Louise Séguin, Lise Goulet, Susan R. Kahn, Helen McNamara, Jacques Genest, Clément Dassa, Moy Fong Chen, Shakti Sharma; Michael Meaney, Steven Thomson; Stan Van Uum; Gideon Koren, Mourad Dahhou, Julie Lamoureux; Robert W. Platt. Stress pathways to spontaneous preterm birth. The Role of Stressors, Psychological Distress, and Stress Hormones, American Journal of Epidemiology, 2009; 169:11:1319-1326

Bio: Arjumand Siddiqi is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health and an Associate Member of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research Program on Successful Societies. Dr. Siddiqi is interested in the role that societal conditions play in shaping inequities in population health and human development. In particular, her research utilizes a cross-national comparative perspective to understand the consequences of social welfare policies for inequalities in health and developmental outcomes. Areas of research include the influence of income inequality and social policies on inequities in schooling outcomes amongst the advanced market economies, and an emerging body of work to understand health inequities in Canada versus the United States. Dr. Siddiqi for formally Assistant Professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and a Faculty Fellow of the Carolina Population Center. She was a member of the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health Knowledge Hub on Early Child Development, and has consulted to several international agencies including the World Bank and UNICEF. Dr. Siddiqi received her doctorate in Social Epidemiology from Harvard University.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
416-978-4017

Email
aa.siddiqi@utoronto.ca

Website Address: -

Mailing Address: 155 College Street, Room 566, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M7 Canada

Collaborative projects: I work with Clyde Hertzman on a variety of projects related to social determinants of health and human development.

Current research interests: Dr. Siddiqi is interested in the role that societal conditions play in shaping inequities in population health and human development. In particular, her research utilizes a cross-national comparative perspective to understand the consequences of social welfare policies for inequalities in health and developmental outcomes. Areas of research include the influence of income inequality and social policies on inequities in schooling outcomes amongst the advanced market economies, and an emerging body of work to understand health inequities in Canada versus the United States.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty), Stress and allostatic load, Social into the biological and epigenetic | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies, Need to define poverty, Need to study social gradients as well as poverty, Multi-level studies - Society, Family &Individual, Regional studies (within countries), Which indicators?: for example, perception of health vs. objective measures of health (these may be more reliable in studying mechanisms), Root cause analysis to inform policy change | Interventions: Children’s rights & equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities Policy innovation, What works in reducing child health inequalities? | Other research priorities: societal influences (primarily social policy) on inequities in children's health and development.

Selected Publications

Hertzman C, Siddiqi A, Hertzman E, Irwin LG, Vaghri Z, Houweling TAJ, Bell R, Tinajero A, Marmot M. 2010. Bucking the Gradient: Tackling Inequalities through Early Child Development. British Medical Journal. 340:c468.

Siddiqi A, Nguyen Q. 2010. A Cross-National Comparative Perspective on Racial Inequities in Health: The United States versus Canada. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 64(1):29-35.

Siddiqi A, Subramanian, SV, Berkman LF, Hertzman C and Kawachi I. 2007. The welfare state as a context for children’s developmental health: A study of the effects of unemployment and unemployment protection on reading literacy scores. International Journal of Social Welfare. 16(4): 314 – 325.

Siddiqi A, Kawachi I, Berkman L, Subramanian SV, and Hertzman C. 2007. Variation of socioeconomic gradients in children’s development across advanced capitalist societies: Analysis of 25 OECD Nations. International Journal of Health Services. 37(1): 63-87.

Siddiqi A. and Hertzman C. 2007. Towards an epidemiological understanding of the effects of long-term institutional changes on population health: a case study of Canada versus the USA. Social Science & Medicine. 64(3): 589-603. (Named a ‘Notable Release’ by the Canadian Population Health Initiative, Canadian Institute for Health Information).

Bio: Nick Spencer trained as a paediatrician and held the first UK post as a social paediatrician working across the hospital/community divide. In 1990 he was appointed Professor of Community Child Health at the University of Warwick and Consultant Community Paediatrician in Coventry. In addition to clinical and managerial responsibilities in Coventry, he was responsible for leading the development of the Warwick Masters (MSc) course in Community Child Health and developing a research programme in the social determinants of child health. He was national chair of the British Association for Community Child Health and a member of the Advocacy committee of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Following retirement in 2003, he has continued to pursue his research interests with colleagues at the University of Warwick and the University of Montreal. He is the founder, along with Louise Seguin, of INRICH.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
+44 (0) 1926 424414

Email
n.j.spencer@warwick.ac.uk

Website Address:

Mailing Address: 86, Leicester Street, Leamington Spa, CV32 4TB, UK

Current research interests: Nick Spencer (UK) has a longstanding interest in the social determinants of child health with a particular focus on poverty and child health. He has published widely on social inequities in child health including 'Poverty and Child Health' - the main English language book focusing on this key aspect of the social determinants of health. His recent work has focused on the social determinants of birth weight and chronic illness/disability in childhood.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Social into the biological and epigenetic / Intergenerational influences | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty | Interventions: Children’s rights and equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities

Selected Publications

Spencer NJ, Rajmil L, Taylor-Robinson D, Panagiotopoulos T on behalf of ISSOP. ISSOP Position Statement on the impact of austerity on child health and well being, 2015, 12 pgs.

Spencer NJ, Blackburn CM, Read JM. Disabling chronic conditions in childhood and socioeconomic disadvantage: a systematic review and meta-analyses of observational studies, BMJ Open 2015;5:e007062. DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007062

Spencer NJ. Poverty and child health. 2nd Edition. Radcliffe Medical Press, Oxford, 2000

Spencer NJ. The effect of income inequality and macro-level social policy on infant mortality and low birthweight in developed countries - a preliminary systematic review. Child: care, health and development 2004;30:699-709

Sundrum R, Wallace A, Logan S, Spencer NJ. Cerebral palsy and socio-economic status: a retrospective cohort study. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2005;90:15-19

Spencer NJ. Maternal education, lone parenthood, material hardship, maternal smoking and longstanding respiratory problems in childhood: testing a hierarchical conceptual framework. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2005;59:842-6

Spencer NJ, ESSOP. Social inequalities in child health - towards equity and social justice. ESSOP position paper. Child Care Health Dev. 2008 ;34(5):631-34.

Bio: David trained in paediatrics at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, and subsequently in public health in the NHS, and has a broad background in health promotion and public health with expertise in policy research, epidemiology, quantitative and qualitative methods, and evaluation of complex interventions. David has particular interest and experience in contributing to knowledge exchange initiatives to improve child health, with a focus on influencing public health policy including: the WHO Collaborating Centre for Policy Research on Social Determinants of Health; the Cochrane Collaboration; the EU funded DEMETRIQ project; and the MRC IMPACT project.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Post graduate researcher

Telephone
+44 151 794 4314

Email
dctr@liv.ac.uk

Website Address: www.liv.ac.uk/psychology-health-and-society/staff/david-taylor-robinson/

Mailing Address: Department of Public Health and Policy, Whelan Building, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, L69 3GB

Collaborative projects: Systematic review of impact of the current economic and financial crisis on child health, with Rajmil and other INRICH members

Current research interests: David is a Clinical Lecturer in Public Health, and MRC Population Health Scientist Fellow in the Department of Public Health and Policy at the University of Liverpool. His current MRC Fellowship project involves exploring pathways to health inequalities in children, by undertaking longitudinal analyses of disease registers (particularly Cystic Fibrosis) and cohort studies (UK Millennium Cohort Study).

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to define poverty / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty | Interventions: Children’s rights and equity – research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities / What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Taylor-Robinson D, Wickham S, Barr B. Child health at risk from welfare cuts: Poverty has an enduring influence on children’s development, health outcomes, and survival, BMJ 2015;351:h5330. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h5330

Spencer NJ, Rajmil L, Taylor-Robinson D, Panagiotopoulos T on behalf of ISSOP. ISSOP Position Statement on the impact of austerity on child health and well being, 2015, 12 pgs.

Taylor-Robinson D, Smyth R, Diggle P, Whitehead M. A longitudinal study of the impact of social deprivation and disease severity on employment status in the UK cystic fibrosis population. PLoS ONE 8(8): e73322. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073322.

Taylor-Robinson D, Whitehead M, Barr B. Great leap backwards: The UK’s austerity programme has disproportionately affected children and people with disabilities, BMJ 2014;34:g7350

Taylor-Robinson D, Smyth R, Diggle P,Whitehead M (2013) The effect of social deprivation on clinical outcomes and the use of treatments in the UK cystic fibrosis population: a longitudinal study. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine - 1 April 2013 ( Vol. 1, Issue 2, Pages 121-128 ) DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(13)70002-X.

Barr B, Taylor-Robinson D and Whitehead M (2012) The health inequalities impact of rising prosperity in England,1999-2008, and the implications for performance incentives. A longitudinal ecological study. BMJ vol 335 pp e7831.

Taylor-Robinson D, Maayan N, Soares-Weiser K, Donegan S, Garner P (2012) Deworming drugs for soil-transmitted intestinal worms in children: effects on nutritional indicators, haemoglobin and school performance. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Jul 11;7:CD000371. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD000371.pub4.

Taylor-Robinson D, Whitehead M, Diderichsen F, Olesen HV, Pressler T, Smyth R, Diggle P. (2012) Understanding the natural progression in %FEV1 decline in patients with cystic fibrosis: A longitudinal study. Thorax. 2012 Oct; 67(10):860-6. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200953. Epub 2012 May 3.

Bio: Mai Thanh Tu completed her doctoral studies in neurosiences at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) under the supervision of Dr. Sonia Lupien and Dr. Claire-Dominique Walker. After spending 18 months at The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) as a postdoctoral research fellow in Pediatrics, she came back to Montreal to pursue her postdoctoral training at the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at Universite de Montreal, with Dr. Louise Seguin and Dr. Mark Daniel. Mai Thanh Tu is funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the NARSAD foundation.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Post graduate researcher

Telephone
514 890-8000 ext. 15901

Email
mai.thanh.tu@umontreal.ca

Website Address: -

Mailing Address: 3875 St-Urbain, office 3-02, Montreal, Canada H2W 1V1

Collaborative projects: Quebec Longitudinal Study on Child Development - Health outcomes with Louise Seguin and Lise Gauvin.

Current research interests: Mai Thanh Tu examined the influences of breastfeeding and low income on biological stress pathways in mothers of healthy infants during her doctoral studies. Then, she investigated stress regulation in preterm infants during painful procedures such as vaccination. Mai is now working on the contribution of contextual factors such as social and physical characteristics of residential neighborhood, living in poverty conditions and caring for a sick child on maternal mental health using questionnaires, geographic informatics system and biomarkers of stress and allostatic load (cortisol and glycated hemoglobin).

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) / Stress and allostatic load / Social into the biological and epigenetic | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual

Selected Publications

Tu MT, Daniel M, Séguin L (2009) Child Health, Poverty, Neighborhood Characteristics and Trajectories of Maternal Depression. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, April 22nd-25th, 2009, Montréal, Canada. Meritorious Student Award.

Tu MT, Grunau RE, Petrie-Thomas J, Haley D, Weinberg J, Whitfield M (2007) Maternal stress and behavior modulate relationships between neonatal stress, attention and basal cortisol at 8 months in preterm infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 49(2): 150-64.

Tu MT, Lupien SJ and Walker CD (2006) Diurnal salivary cortisol levels in postpartum mothers as a function of infant feeding choice and parity. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 31(7): 812-824.

Tu MT, Walker CD, Lupien SJ (2006) Multiparity reveals the blunting effect of breastfeeding on physiological reactivity to psychological stress. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 18(7): 494-503.

Tu MT, Lupien SJ, Walker CD. (2005) Measuring stress responses in postpartum mothers: perspectives from studies in human and animal populations. Stress, 8(1):19-34.

Bio: I currently work as a post-doc researcher in the area of child health promotion.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Post graduate researcher

Telephone
0031107043498

Email
a.vangrieken@erasmusmc.nl

Website Address: - Linkedin profile

Collaborative projects: EPOCH.

Current research interests: Child health, promoting healthy child development, families, parenting.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty) | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Need to study social gradients as well as poverty / Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual / Regional studies (within countries) / Which indicators?: for example, perception of health vs. objective measures of health (these may be more reliable in studying mechanisms) | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Grieken, A. V., Renders, C. M., Veldhuis, L., Looman, C. W., Hirasing, R. A., & Raat, H. (2014). Promotion of a healthy lifestyle among 5-year-old overweight children: health behavior outcomes of the 'Be active, eat right’ study. BMC Public Health, 14(1). doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-59

Bio: My work has examined children’s experiences and perceptions of chronic stress, how they cope with chronic stress, the extent to which different types of coping have different physiologic signatures, the extent to which coping and strengths based preventive interventions can prevent psychopathology, and finally, whether coping-based interventions can change the functioning of the HPA and thereby prevent the emergence of psychopathology and other health problems in vulnerable children and youths.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
814-865-2878

Email
mew27@psu.edu

Website Address: - Coping And Regulation of Environmental Stress Lab

Mailing Address: 216 Moore Building, Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802

Collaborative projects: Wadsworth, M.E., Evans, G.W., Grant, K., Carter, J.S. & Duffy, J.S. (in press). Poverty and the Development of Psychopathology. In D. Cicchetti, (Ed.), Developmental Psychopathology, 3rd Edition.

Current research interests: My research program is aimed at understanding children’s experiences of chronic stress (poverty, discrimination), identifying potentially malleable mechanisms of the pathways from chronic stress to health disparities, and development and evaluation of interventions to protect against chronic stress and prevent health disparities.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Stress and allostatic load / Social into the biological and epigenetic | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies / Root cause analysis to inform policy change | Interventions: What works in reducing child health inequalities?

Selected Publications

Wadsworth, M.E., Raviv, T., Santiago, C.D., & Etter, E.M. (2011). Testing the Adaptation to Poverty-related Stress Model: Predicting Psychopathology Symptoms in Families Facing Economic Hardship. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 40, 646-657.

Santiago, C.D. & Wadsworth, M.E. (2011). Family and Cultural influences on Low-income Latino Youths' Coping and Adjustment. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 40, 332-337.

Wadsworth, M.E. (2015). Development of Maladaptive Coping: A Functional Adaptation to Chronic, Uncontrollable Stress. Child Development Perspectives, 9(2):96-100.

Hurwich-Reiss, E., Rindlaub, L. A., Wadsworth, M.E., & Markman, H. J. (2014). Cultural adaptation of a family strengthening intervention for low-income spanish-speaking families. Journal of Latina/o Psychology, 2(1), 21-36.

Wadsworth, M.E., Rindlaub, L., Hurwich-Reiss, E., Rienks, S., Bianco, H., & Markman, H. J. (2013). A longitudinal examination of the adaptation to poverty-related stress model: Predicting child and adolescent adjustment over time. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 42(5), 713-725.

Bio: Dr. Wise is the Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society and Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine and Senior Fellow in the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Prior to moving to Stanford University, Dr. Wise was Vice-Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities in the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Wise received his A.B. and M.D. degrees from Cornell University, a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and did his pediatric training at the Children's Hospital in Boston. He served as Chair of the Steering Committee of the NIH Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research between 2000 and 2006 and currently serves on the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Service's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society.

Type of INRICH Research Associate: Regular

Telephone
650-725-5645

Email
pwise@stanford.edu

Website Address: healthpolicy.stanford.edu/mediaguide/paulhwise/

Mailing Address: CHP/PCOR, 117 Encina Commons, Stanford, CA 94305-6019

Current research interests:U.S and international child health policy, the policy implications of gene-environment interaction, and the impact of medical innovation on disparities in child health. Current projects focus on the policy models that incorporate life-course effects and the provision of child health services in areas of unstable governance, particularly areas affected by ongoing civil strife, post-conflict and non-functioning local government.

Research priorities:
Pathways and mechanisms: Cumulative and additive social risk exposures (e.g. transient v. persistent poverty), Social into the biological and epigenetic / Intergenerational influences | Methodological issues: Methods for examining change over time including longitudinal effects studies, Need to study social gradients as well as poverty, Multi-level studies - Society, Family & Individual / Regional studies (within countries) / Which indicators?: for example, perception of health vs. objective measures of health (these may be more reliable in studying mechanisms) / Root cause analysis to inform policy change | Interventions: Children's rights & equity - research into effective use as tools to reduce child health inequalities / What works in reducing child health inequalities? | Other: Implications of gene-environment interaction and life-course effects on child rights and health policy

Selected Publications

Wise PH, Kotelchuck M, Wilson M, Mills M. Racial and socio economic disparities in childhood mortality in Boston. New Eng J Med 1985;313:360 6.

Kahn RS, Wise PH, Kennedy BP, Kawachi I. State income inequality, household income, and maternal mental and physical health:cross sectional national survey. BMJ. 2000;321:1311-5.

Wise PH. The transformation of child health in the United States. Health Affairs. 2004;. 23(5): 9-25

Wise PH, Blair ME. The UNICEF Report on child well-being: a commentary. Amb Peds. 2007;7:265-7.

Wise PH. Confronting social disparities in child health: The policy requirements of life-course science and research. Pediatrics. (In Press).