We had a fabulous time meeting everyone at #NewScientistLive this week – children, teens, adults and dinosaurs! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to talk about school meals and play ‘balance the budget’ with us

Day 2 @ #NewScientistLive! and we're having an amazing time 🦠🥙 The brilliant @CentreoftheCell are playing Microbe Trumps and @QMUL_CEG are tackling improving Free School Meals.

Our friends @Barts_Charity have launched their latest impact report, featuring CEG work on improving childhood vaccination in London. Their investment helped us to increase timely MMR by 4.1%, making real-world impact with our research

In chapter 9, our team foreground children’s voices from school food environments in Bradford and Tower Hamlets, arguing that research and policy can benefit immensely from children and young people’s perspectives around free school meals. @UCLpress

✨Urban Childhoods: Growing up in Inequality and Hope. Our child health team have contributed to a new publication that compiles research on housing, play and food to consider what creates the best start for children growing up in England’s inner-city areas

Study with us! Join our MSc Health Data in Practice and unlock the power of data to transform healthcare https://t.co/Ofrh5eKIeU Register your interest to receive an invitation to our webinar on 24 July: https://t.co/yDSbuFiCbg

Our team will train a cohort of GPs in health data science, research methods, and the clinical effectiveness approach, to develop them into future leaders in primary care across North East London. We can't wait to get started! Find out more and apply: https://t.co/YNXtYWJqu0 2/2

📢Join CEG as an Academic GP Advanced Fellow! We've launched a new programme in collab with @NHS_NELondon that offers a hybrid role, split 50:50 between clinical practice and academia. 1/2

What a setting to engage with science! We enjoyed discussing our research with members of the public at Barts Pathology Museum this week. Natalia Concha & Marta Wilk presented studies into school food and household overcrowding - more on these topics here: https://t.co/tjmhiZsvg3

The judges commented: "This woman is improving lives by addressing health inequalities through data." At @QMULBartsTheLon we're thrilled that the award will amplify Rohini’s research and inspire a wider audience of women and allies across the globe.

Prof Rohini Mathur @Ladyroho has made the Top Twenty in Data & Tech, an initiative by Women in Data that celebrates inspirational, trailblazing, dedicated women 🎉

Today, my paper was released in @BMJ_Open: 'Health impacts of the Sure Start programme on disadvantaged children in the UK: a systematic review'. This marks the most comprehensive review of the Sure Start Programme — with some fascinating findings! 1/n https://t.co/5yZcSLj52s

CEG’s Professor Carol Dezateux speaks to @ls_barts about using health data to address inequalities, and our collaborative effort to unlock valuable information from tissue samples, imaging and genomics: https://t.co/zzhT9ezoVm @Barts_Charity

𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐄 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬 @QMUL new research estimates over 70% of families in some areas having little more than a parking space. https://t.co/eGIExkObTE

We found households in NE London were 5x more likely to be overcrowded if they included children. This was more marked if the property was privately rented rather than owner occupied, and if residents were from a South Asian or Black ethnic group. https://t.co/nVaIhU0gLe 3/3

Our team used encrypted Unique Property Reference Numbers to group anonymised health record data into ‘households’, then linked this info to property data to determine overcrowding. More on our methods here: https://t.co/BKVjvl0HZL With thanks to @Barts_Charity & @adr_uk 2/3

New CEG research in @IJPDS has found half of families with children in NE London are living in overcrowded homes. In some areas, 70-79% of families have little more than a parking space per person. https://t.co/8F14WjGe2a @QMULBartsTheLon @QMUL_WIPH @QMULPrimaryCare 1/3

💡 Could artificial intelligence transform how we treat cancer? Researchers at the BCI are using and improving on innovative AI tools to better understand, diagnose and predict patients’ disease. Read more: https://t.co/GgPSVHXJpU @QMUL | @QMULBartsTheLon | @Barts_Charity

Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) are highly infectious and can lead to serious health complications. However, in London, fewer than 82% of children have had their first MMR vaccination by age 2. According to the World Health Organization, at least 95% of children need to be

A software tool developed by @QMUL_CEG helps GP practices in NE London reach more children with timely MMR vaccination. This shows the potential of a learning health system and data-driven solutions to improve vaccination uptake across the UK.