🎉 Congratulations to our Editor-in-Chief, richard horton, on being presented with the 2021 Physicians for Human Rights Award by Dr Anthony Fauci at last night's Physicians for Human Rights #PHRGala2021 .

Vaccines are remarkably safe & effective & increasing evidence they decouple link between transmission infections & illness. So although infections may rise, we will not see associated rise illness & hospitalisation. That is early data & 20M in UK had 2 vaccines many have not

This will be important

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Just over a week ‘til joint CHELSIG & BPAIIG (RCPCH affil’ SIGS) webcast: ethical issues in COVID-19 vaccination in children. Free but need to register, see attached PGME Great Ormond Street Hospital RCPCH Paediatric Critical Care Society ESPNIC BPAIIG The Ethics Centre Nuffield Council on Bioethics

Congrats Ibrahim Abubakar A scholar and a gentleman in my experience.

Congrats Brad Gudger you’ll be working with the wonderful Prof Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard Great to see more focus on young people and social prescribing.

Our systematic review in pre print looking at the evidence for interventions to avoid admissions to hospital for children and young people presenting in mental health crisis. Not peer reviewed but submitted

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Good news from the UK: Junk food adverts to be banned completely online and on TV before 9pm
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This week marks the end of my presidency as I hand over to Camilla Kingdon

Time for a break, to remember the cats name, and figure out where I left the lawnmower in 2018.

Thanks to all for the immense support - it's been an honour. My last blog:

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Our new large meta-analysis shows children have a 44% lower odds of catching COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 than adults eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Crucial UCL research exploring Covid impact on young people in UK. Please take part and share tinyurl.com/ybtpvgzu
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Please RT. Are you 16-24 years old and living in the UK? Our survey aims to learn more about how the current social distancing measures are affecting young people. It takes 15-20 minutes. To take part and for more info, please visit uclpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5h…

Please share! We are studying 16-24 year olds during COVID: if you are, or know someone of this age could you ask them if they would be willing to join this online study? It’s a joint UCL and Imperial study Population, Policy and Practice Department UCL PaedsChildHealth #COVID19 #MentalHealthMatters
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Please RT. Are you 16-24 years old and living in the UK? Our survey aims to learn more about how the current social distancing measures are affecting young people. It takes 15-20 minutes. To take part and for more info, please visit uclpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5h…

#pafta East of England

Great to see Lister team win team Pafta at East of England school of paediatrics awards #pafta

Our director led the facilitation of this #groundbreaking research trial into bullying and aggression in #schools tinyurl.com/w8hy488 #Inclusive Russell Viner Chris Bonell EEF featured in IIE New York's brilliant Best Evidence in Brief.

Fascinating and didn’t know that. Makes one think. It matches exactly Ed presentation rates - highest for under 1s and 16-25yo.

Want to find out more about our ambitious #paediatrics2040 project?

Don't miss the latest 2 Paeds In A Pod podcast, featuring our project board chairs RCPCH President and Hannah Jacob

Listen online now: bit.ly/2uw2aAo

Urgent action needed from Treasury