Joe Ward @_joe_ward
General Paediatrician and NIHR Clinical Lecturer researching health inequalities, adolescent health and child and young person mortality. Walthamstow, London Joined March 2016-
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Paper out today in @TheLancet led by Pete Azzopardi, Jessica Kerr and Kate Francis The unfinished agenda of communicable diseases in children and adolescents sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
NEW RF by @_louisemurphy - Left behind: Exploring the prevalence of youth worklessness due to ill health in different parts of the UK resolutionfoundation.org/publications/l…
Violence against adolescent girls often starts much earlier in life - this has long term impacts. What kinds of interventions can help us #EndViolence against adolescent girls? Find out in our BLOG with @CIatUCT @GAGE_programme @yloxford ⬇️
Out-of-pocket spending for non–birth-related pediatric hospitalizations can be substantial and varied by factors such as hospitalization timing, medical complexity, and insurance benefit design. ja.ma/3oWeiH4
Increased in new onset diabetes and presenting more sick during covid More severe DKA and PICU Retrospective multicentric 🇬🇧🇮🇪 49 PED Another great report from PERUKI @Damian_Roland @mdlyttle adc.bmj.com/content/early/…
We’re back! Shifting to action - a second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Read more: doi.org/10.1016/S0140-… #LancetYouth
Matching actions to need. Thanks to Pete Azzopardi & Caroline Kabiru for leading a round table with Kenyan policy & program leaders on local adolescent health data. Thanks @aphrc for hosting this Lancet Commission side event @MelbourneGlobal @MCRI_for_kids @UniMelbMDHS
Capacity building in action: our two 'minute keepers' on the 2016 Lancet Commission for Adolescent Health are commissioners in their own right for the 2nd Lancet Commission. Great to have @jasonmnagata and @_joe_ward on the team! @LancetYouth
Kicking off our 3-day meeting in Nairobi, hosted by @aphrc. Ready for lively discussions, updates, and getting ready for next steps - drafting the report. Stay tuned for updates.
‘A good day’: FDA approves world’s first RSV vaccine nature.com/articles/d4158…
Rising child and adolescent mortality in the US. Among 10-19 yr olds, suicide 69.5% rise, homicide 32.7% rise 2013-2019. Marked differences between ethnic groups Deaths of despair: access to firearms, opiates, deepening mental health crisis. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… 
Pleased to see this out bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/6/1/e0… - our approach to assessment of asylum seeking families - for use in ED, clinic or anywhere else you encounter these vulnerable families. @uclh @NuriaSanchezCl1 @LongleyNicky #inclusionhealth
#COVID19–associated orphanhood and caregiver death has left an estimated 10.5 million children bereaved of their parents and caregivers. ja.ma/3hpzWzW #Research
The @TARNaudit Severe Injury in Children 2019-20 reflects in real numbers @russellviner’s presentation this morning at #RCPCHyouth22 with case fatality counts for asphyxia being the highest amongst all causes- for the first time since 2012 more than RTC’s. tarn.ac.uk/Content.aspx?c…
The rate of increase of eating problems in particular over the last few years is alarming to say the least. Data via @russellviner. #RCPCHyouth22
The changing adolescence in the UK from Professor @russellviner #RCPCHyouth22
How #safe do #girls & #youngwomen in #UK feel? National survey of girls & adolescent women l in 2022 finds ~ 1 in 5 don’t feel safe in #school with girls of colour aged 11 to 16 less likely than girls who are White to feel safe at school (65% compared to 70%). Furthermore 👇
To grow up in #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean is to know inequity, injustice, and hardship... Yet, these issues are given insufficient attention Our new Editorial on #adolescents in the LAC region - the challenges they face and the urgent actions needed thelancet.com/journals/lanch…
Fantastic for Nottingham Youth Climate Assembly inc @ThePythianClub members to meet the @NottsCC youth board and Nottingham Green Partnership yesterday to spread the word on #YouthClimateManifestoNottingham, building connections, working together.
We were happy to be part of the conversation on Nottingham Citizens #YPManifesto23. Great to build connections with more young people across Nottingham, to continue to work for our #YouthClimateManifestoNottingham and connect for a future where youth voices are loud and clear!

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