About us

The Centre welcomes anyone and everyone who is concerned with the wellbeing of children, whether as a researcher, clinician, and educator of whatever discipline. We aim to reach out across College and West London to foster collaboration for the benefit of the present and future generations of children, our most precious asset.

Our mission

We will be the voice for children within Imperial College London and beyond, working closely with our NHS colleagues across West London, to

1. Drive forward world-class, multidisciplinary research in all aspects of newborn and child health, and the genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors which subvert child development. We will work in partnership with children and families to advance research and to champion the rights of all children to be involved in research that will benefit children.
2. Ensure an environment which will nurture the next generation of clinicians and scientists who will advance high quality, ethical paediatric research 
3. Promote excellent holistic undergraduate and postgraduate education to equip our trainees to be inquisitive and able to contribute to advances in paediatrics and child health,  promoting healthy development and the early identification of disease in future generations of children
4. Engage with children, young people and the community, to promote science and medicine, and facilitate their access to the incredible opportunities at Imperial College      

While striving for these aims, we will energetically oppose all forms of discrimination, whether based on gender, orientation, race or any other factor, and whether such discrimination limits the ability of a child to achieve their potential, or stands in the way of academic or clinical staff gaining the recognition and progress that they merit.

Centre leadership

Centre leadership

International Advisory Board

Professor Frank Bloomfield
Director, Liggins Institute
Professor of Neonatology, The University of Auckland, Auckland 

Professor Shoo K. Lee, OC, DHC, PhD, FRCPC, MBBS
Professor of Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Public Health, University of Toronto
Neonatologist & Director of The Maternal Infant Care Research Center (MiCARE), Mount Sinai Hospital; Toronto, Ontario Canada

Professor Berthold Koletzko
Professor of Paediatrics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, LMU University Hospitals, Muenchen, Germany

Professor Colleen A. Kraft, MD, MBA, FAAP
Professor of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California
2018 President, American Academy of Pediatrics
Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Professor Melissa Wake, Paediatrician FAHMS MBChB FRACP MD GradDip Obst & Gynae
Scientific Director, GenV & Group Leader, Prevention Innovation
Professorial Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne
Honorary Professor, Dept of Paediatrics & Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland
Group Leader, Murdoch Children's Research Institute