About the Child Health Group

The group comprises of a mixture of clinicians, allied health professionals and academics from a variety of different backgrounds such as health services research, psychology, sports science and biological sciences. We use a wide variety of methods, qualitative and qualitative to address relevant issues facing children's health.

We are currently undertaking a national, longitudinal cohort study looking at the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of enzyme replacement therapy in the treatment of a collection of rare metabolic disorders. We have a range of projects concerned with the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity and have spent four years developing and piloting a novel school-based programme of activities to engage schools, children and their families in healthy lifestyle messages.

We have recently been received substantial charitable funding to look at treatments and service delivery of treatments for disabled children and have created the Peninsula Cerebra Research Unit (PenCRU) to address these issues. A central tenet of all of the research undertaken in Child Health is the meaningful involvement of service users, carers and families in all aspects of the research, from setting the question to delivering and disseminating the research.