Area of expertise: paediatric population health
Languages spoken: English, Swedish
Biography
Dr Ingrid Wolfe is a Consultant in Paediatric Population Health at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, and Reader in Paediatrics and Child Health at King’s College London where she leads the Child Health Systems and Policy Research Group. She is Director of the Institute for Women’s and Children’s Health (King’s Health Partners) She is co-Chair of the British Association for Child and Adolescent Public Health.
As Director of the Children and Young People’s Health Partnership (CYPHP), hosted by Evelina London, she led the development and evaluation of a new model of children’s healthcare in South London. This work continues as Evelina London’s Population Paediatrics, a clinical-academic programme of work to improve outcomes for children.
Dr Wolfe’s work is about improving child health through strengthening and applying science in children’s health services, systems, and policy.
Dr Wolfe teaches undergraduate and postgraduate clinical and research students in paediatrics and child health. She supervises MSc and PhD students and mentors early career researchers in child health services and systems research.
- PhD “Child Health, Health Service and Systems in the UK and other European Countries” Karlstad University, Sweden. 2015
- MFPHM/FFPHM, UK, 2006, 2013
- MRCPCH/FRCPCH, UK, 2000/2014
- MSc, Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, 2003
- MB BS, University College London, University of London, 1997
- BSc (Hons II:i) Physiology, University College London, University of London, 1989
Ingrid is qualified in paediatrics and public health, enabling her to be a children’s doctor with a very broad perspective. She has on-the-ground insight from clinical practice, and an understanding of the population from public health. These two aspects come together in her NHS and academic work focusing on improving children’s health services, systems, and policy in the UK and Europe.
Health systems and policy research, developing and testing interventions to improve outcomes at scale. Dr Wolfe’s research is translational, and cross-disciplinary, focusing on promoting child health, preventing ill health among children, and improving quality of care and health for children.