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- Monica Lakhanpaul (née Dhir) MBBS MRCPH (UK) DM FRCPCH MFPH FRSA is a British Indian academic, researcher, clinician, broadcaster, science communicator and poet. She is currently Professor of Integrated Community Child Health at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London (UCL) and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at Whittington Health NHS Trust. She is also the current Pro-Vice-Provost (South Asia) at UCL Global Engagement, Co-Director of the Childhood Infections and Pollution (CHIP) Consortium, Adjunct Professor of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), British Science Association Media Fellow, Member by Distinction of the Faculty of Public Health and Faculty Member of the Reach Alliance. She is co-host of UCL 'Unlocking the SDGs: A Blueprint for the Future' podcast and is a regular guest on the BBC World Service's Health Check programme. Lakhanpaul has held numerous senior academic and policy positions such as being the first Clinical Director for the National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health (NCC-WCH), leading on the development of children’s guidelines for NICE, and holding the first Paediatric NICE Fellowship. She takes a life-course approach to her work, and uses collaborative, participatory research methods to work with communities, particularly the most vulnerable in society, with the aim of helping their voices to be heard to improve their health and wellbeing, and has led multiple projects to optimise health and wellbeing for children in areas such as early years, chronic conditions, developmental difficulties, mental health, health inequalities, and minority health issues, working at the intersections of health, education and the environment supported by citizen science and the creative arts to ensure that the communities she works with are involved in co-developing holistic integrated solutions that are aimed at supporting them. Lakhanpaul has also been recognised by being awarded the Asian Women of Achievement Award (Public Sector) and Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) Health and Wellbeing Award for her work in the public sector. She is a regular guest on radio and other media, where she contributes her expertise, and has written over 180 publications and book chapters. (en)
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