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Special Guest Research Seminar – Child and Adolescent Health
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Special Guest Research Seminar on Child and Adolescent Health
Tuesday 7 March 2023, 1pm until 2pm
Event Space 2.16, Dame Margaret Barbour Building, Newcastle University
Co-hosted by Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health; the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) North East and North Cumbria (NENC); and the Public Health and Health Inequalities theme at Newcastle University
Speakers:
Dr Polly Waite, University of Oxford
Understanding and treating panic disorder in adolescence (20 mins presentation, 10 mins Q&A)
Professor Raghu Lingham, University of New South Wales
Integrating clinical care in child health (20 min presentation, 10 mins Q&A)
More about the speakers
Dr Polly Waite, University of Oxford
Dr Waite is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford. She is also an Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. Her primary clinical and research interests are anxiety disorders in adolescents, and she has recently led a feasibility randomised controlled trial on cognitive therapy for adolescent panic disorder. She has co-led the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)/Westminster Foundation-funded Co-SPACE study, tracking the mental health of children, young people and their parents/carers over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. She has also edited and authored papers and books on anxiety and other common mental health problems for professionals, young people and their families.
Professor Raghu Lingham, University of New South Wales
Fuse Associate Prof Raghu Lingam is Professor in Paediatric Population Health at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Honorary Professor at the Black Dog Institute and a Consultant Community Paediatrician in the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network. He has set up and leads the Population Child Health Research group at UNSW and co-leads the Kids to Adults clinical academic group as part of Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE). Raghu is a senior clinical academic with clinical and research interests in children and young people’s health services research. His expertise is in the development and evaluation of health services interventions that are evaluated at scale; he has run randomised controlled trials in the UK, Australia, India, Pakistan, Uganda, and Mozambique. In the digital space he has co-developed the SILVER intervention as part of the UK Digital Connected Cities initiative, using linked data to frame service development for UK families, and has recently evaluated the Australian Child Digital Health Record. He co-leads the Children and Young Peoples’ Health Partnership (CYPHP), a health systems transformation initiative for over 120,000 children in London based around a primary care-based learning health system.