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Ingrid Wolfe

Professor Ingrid Wolfe OBE

Professor of Paediatrics and Child Population Health

  • Interim Head of Department, Women & Children’s Health
  • Consultant Paediatric Population Medicine

Research interests

  • Child & Family

Biography

Professor Ingrid Wolfe is Director for the Institute of Women and Children’s Health, Director of the Children and Young People’s Health Partnership in Lambeth and Southwark. She is currently Principle Investigator on two large clinical and population health programmes, including the implementation at scale of a health system strengthening initiative and new model of children’s health care, and its evaluation by cluster-randomised control trial; a policy research programme about overcoming adverse childhood conditions; and Child Health Theme Lead for NIHR ARC (applied research programme) South London working to improve outcomes for children with complex conditions and social vulnerabilities. She is co-Chair of the British Association for Child and Adolescent Public Health. Ingrid is qualified in paediatrics and public health, which enables her to be a children’s doctor in a very broad sense of the term. She has on-the-ground insight from clinical practice, and a population perspective from public health. These two aspects come together in her academic work, which focuses on children’s health services, systems and policy in the UK and European countries, and in her NHS work where she is leading work to improve children’s health care and health systems.

Ingrid’s goal is to improve UK child health through strengthening and applying science in children’s health services, systems, and policy, so she publishes and speaks widely on these subjects. She was awarded an OBE for services to children’s health in 2016.

    Research

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    CHILDS Research Group

    The Child Health Integrated Learning and Delivery System Research Group is part of the KHP Institute for Women’s and Children’s Health

    OveRcoming Adverse ChiLdhood Experiences (ORACLE)

    ORACLE aims to improve outcomes for children & young people experiencing Adverse Childhood Experiences by informing policy in health, social care and education.

    Project status: Ongoing

    4 children with muddy boots - by ben wicks
    Multi-Agency Child Safeguarding (MACS) Evaluation

    This project will provide evidence about what makes Local Safeguarding Children Partnerships (LSCPs) effective.

    Project status: Starting

    News

    ARC South London appoints Professor Ingrid Wolfe as new Director

    Professor Wolfe will take over leadership of the organisation in April 2024, following the retirement of current Director Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft

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    New Professor of Palliative Care & Child Health

    Lorna Fraser, a world-leading researcher in child health and palliative care, has been appointed Professor of Palliative Care & Child Health at King's College...

    Lorna Fraser

    Features

    5 minutes with Ingrid Wolfe

    We recently caught up with Professor Ingrid Wolfe OBE, who has recently appointed as Interim Head of Department of Women & Children’s Health

    Guys-hero

      Research

      CHSPR_Little-girl-and-stethoscope
      CHILDS Research Group

      The Child Health Integrated Learning and Delivery System Research Group is part of the KHP Institute for Women’s and Children’s Health

      OveRcoming Adverse ChiLdhood Experiences (ORACLE)

      ORACLE aims to improve outcomes for children & young people experiencing Adverse Childhood Experiences by informing policy in health, social care and education.

      Project status: Ongoing

      4 children with muddy boots - by ben wicks
      Multi-Agency Child Safeguarding (MACS) Evaluation

      This project will provide evidence about what makes Local Safeguarding Children Partnerships (LSCPs) effective.

      Project status: Starting

      News

      ARC South London appoints Professor Ingrid Wolfe as new Director

      Professor Wolfe will take over leadership of the organisation in April 2024, following the retirement of current Director Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft

      Ingrid Wolfe 780x450

      New Professor of Palliative Care & Child Health

      Lorna Fraser, a world-leading researcher in child health and palliative care, has been appointed Professor of Palliative Care & Child Health at King's College...

      Lorna Fraser

      Features

      5 minutes with Ingrid Wolfe

      We recently caught up with Professor Ingrid Wolfe OBE, who has recently appointed as Interim Head of Department of Women & Children’s Health

      Guys-hero