INRICH Members
To become an INRICH member, researchers must demonstrate their involvement in research on child health inequalities through their research themes and publications, and that they are actively involved in research examining the link between poverty/low SES/income inequalities and child health. Please contact us at inrich@centrelearoback.ca
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Featured Members
Anders Hjern
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
- 1984 – MD: Karolinska Institute
- 1990 – PhD: Karolinska Institute
- 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)
- 2013 – Professor of Social Epidemiology of Children and Youth, Karolinska Institute
Hjern A, Bergström M, Fransson E, Lindfors A, Bergqvist K. Birth order and socioeconomic disadvantage predict behavioural and emotional problems at age 3 years. Acta Paediatr. 2021 Dec;110(12):3294-3301. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34481422/
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Louise Séguin
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal
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 examined 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.
Nikiema, B., Spencer, N., & Seguin, L. (2010). Poverty and Chronic Illness in Early Childhood: A Comparison Between the United Kingdom and Quebec. Pediatrics, 125(3). doi:10.1542/peds.2009-0701
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Neal Halfon
The Feilding School of Public Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Neal Halfon, MD, MPH is founding director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, and also directs the Child and Family Health Leadership and Training Program in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Halfon is professor of pediatrics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; health policy and management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health; and public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
For more than two decades Dr. Halfon has been instrumental in advancing research, policy and systems innovations focused on the healthy development of children at local, national and international levels. The Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities has created a new interdisciplinary platform at UCLA to pursue trans-disciplinary research, provided a mechanism to launch significant community-based research, and has spearheaded service and training initiatives. (source: Faculty profile, Feilding School of Public Health, UCLA)
Schickedanz, A., & Halfon, N. (2020). Evolving Roles for Health Care in Supporting Healthy Child Development. Future of Children, 30(2).
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Nicholas Spencer
School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick
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.
Spencer, N. J., Blackburn, C. M., & Read, J. M. (2015). Disabling chronic conditions in childhood and socioeconomic disadvantage: a systematic review and meta-analyses of observational studies. BMJ Open, 5(9). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007062 – Full Text PDF
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