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Personal details
Name Dr Dan Magnus
Job title Honorary Research Associate
Department Bristol Medical School (PHS) University of Bristol
Contact details This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations Office.

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Professional details
Membership of professional bodies Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (Member)

RCPCH International Child Health Group (Convenor)

Child.org (Founding Trustee)
Keywords global child health
paediatrics
emergency medicine
health education
child health
healthcare
developing countries
Kenya
Areas of expertise I am a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and Convenor of the International Child Health Group for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. I am also Paediatric Simulation Programme Director at the Bristol Medical Simulation Centre. I completed a Paediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

My specific areas of expertise are:
1. Paediatric emergency medicine
2. Epidemiology
3. Global child health
4. Global health education
5. Leadership and management
6. Paediatric medical simulation

I have a special interest in global child health and education and am co-founder of Child.org - a charity working in east Africa on child health and education programmes. I was previously Unit Lead for Child Health on the Bristol International Health BSc.
Media experience I have been interviewed for radio, television and print both in the UK and Kenya.