MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health

儿童的健康和福祉面临着新的、不同的威胁，因为肥胖等疾病正变得越来越频繁，而且不太可能有简单的原因。与此同时，科学知识和临床医学的进步对改善儿童及其家庭的健康具有巨大潜力。儿童和晚年的健康受到社会、生物和情感环境的影响，这些环境在整个孕期、儿童期和青春期、独特的成长和发展阶段发挥作用并发生变化。因此，研究了解这些疾病的原因、结果和预防需要复杂的统计分析和开发新的方法，以调查遗传易感性和环境的作用，并支持成人生活的后续行动。MRC儿童健康流行病学中心的这笔赠款将支持在这一领域工作的人口科学家和生物统计学家开发这些新方法，找到更好的方法来转化科学证据来指导儿童政策，并开展与政策相关的研究。它还将为希望通过高质量科学研究改善儿童健康和福祉的未来科学家提供培训。

Children face new and different threats to their health and wellbeing through conditions such as obesity that are becoming more frequent and are unlikely to have a simple cause. At the same time advances in scientific knowledge and clinical medicine have great potential to improve the health of children and their families. Health during childhood and later life is influenced by social, biological and emotional environments which act and change throughout pregnancy, childhood and adolescence, unique periods of growth and development. Thus research to understand the causes, outcome and prevention of these conditions requires complex statistical analyses and the development of new methods to investigate the role of genetic predisposition and environment and to support follow up to adult life. This grant for a MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health will support population scientists and biostatisticians working in this field to develop these new methods, to find better ways of translating scientific evidence to guide policies for children and to carry out policy-relevant research. It will also provide training for scientists of the future who wish to improve children’s health and well-being through high quality scientific research.