Child Health

Based in a vibrant new state-of-the-art Institute in the Park at Alder Hey, the Child Health program from University of Liverpool is predominantly focussed and led by young senior clinical academics with established teams and considerable income streams.

The Department of Women’s and Children’s Health is internationally renowned for research covering obstetrics, gynaecology, neonatology, and medical and surgical paediatrics.

Key Features

• The main research facilities are integrated with two of the largest specialist Women’s and Children’s hospitals in Europe, the Centre for Women’s Health research within the Liverpool Women’s Hospital and Institute in the Park within the Alder Hey Hospital.
• The Child Health program from University of Liverpool is internationally renowned for its research and has specialist groups covering obstetrics, gynaecology, neonatology and medical and surgical paediatrics.

Facilities

• The Child Health Research Team is based at the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, a new £280M facility opened in 2015 with a catchment area of 7.5 million and more than 275,000 episodes of care per annum including 65,000 children seen in the A&E department.
• A new, state-of-the-art bespoke ‘Alder Hey Institute in the Park’ brings together the strengths of the University and NHS in Research, Innovation and Education (Phase I, £12.5M opened 2015, with the £13M Phase II extension opening in 2018) with outstanding laboratory facilities.
• The recently renewed £2M funding to support the NIHR Alder Hey Clinical Research Facility (CRF) for Experimental Medicine serves as a hub for conducting experimental medicine/ early phase/ late phase clinical trials/ studies in neonates and children to ensure that Liverpool is a key UK and European player for drug development in paediatrics.

Research Themes:

• Research synthesis and clinical trials

• Biology of the developing lung

• Paediatric Rheumatology

• Developing better medicines for children

• Paediatric infections

• Paediatric renal inflammation and injury

• Improving child health globally

• Stem cell therapy for Hirschsprung’s disease

• Cell biology of childhood malignancies.