Professor Alan Emond
MA, MD, MBBChir(Cantab), FRCP, FRCPCH
Professor of Community Child Health
Oakfield House
Oakfield Grove
Clifton
Bristol
BS8 2BN
UK
Fax Number: (0117) 33 14088
Telephone Number: (0117) 33 14099
Email:
alan.emond@bristol.ac.uk
List of publications (links to IRIS publications database)
Current research and interests
- ALSPAC- co-applicant on the core grant for the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (funded by MRC and Wellcome Trust)
- Growth faltering in infancy- a series of projects using ALSPAC investigating the long term consequences of poor early growth- current work investigating outcome at 8 forms part of PhD studentship (funded by Higher Education Council of Pakistan)
- The Origins, outcomes and impact of persistent phonological impairment in ALSPAC Collaboration with Prof S Roulstone. (funded by Medical Research Council)
- The causes and consequences of childhood wetting and soiling- a collaboration using ALSPAC (funded by the Big Lottery fund)
- Road use and Injury in adolescence- a prospective study using ALSPAC, with Prof Elizabeth Towner. (funded by Dept for Transport)
- Aquatest 2 project: an international research study to develop a low cost water test for developing countries. (funded by Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation)
- MENDS- Co-applicant on the multi-centre trial on use of melatonin in sleep disturbance in children with neuron-developmental disorders (funded by HTA)
Teaching
- Community based teaching in child health for medical students (COMP 1)
- BSc International Health
- BSc Early childhood Studies
- SW Paediatric registrar (SpR) training programme
Personal Profile
Alan is a clinical academic paediatrician who is head of the Centre for Child and Adolescent Health in Bristol. He is a professor at the University of Bristol, and consultant paediatrician at North Bristol Trust and University Hospitals Bristol Trust.
His research experience is in epidemiology and health service evaluation, including work on the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC - Children of the Nineties). He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, with teaching interests in inter-professional learning and international health. He has extensive overseas experience, working in Jamaica, Ethiopia and Brazil, including community-based research projects evaluating the impact of interventions on child health.