Mitch Blair qualified in Medicine MBBS from UCH, London in 1983 with a BSc in Sociology and Philosophy of Medicine and went on to paediatric training posts at Stoke Mandeville and Charing Cross Hospital, amongst others. After obtaining an MSc in Community Paediatrics from the Institute of Child Health in London, he moved to Nottingham as Lecturer and then Consultant Senior Lecturer in Community Paediatrics which he held between 1990 and 1998. He worked in inner city community practice in health centres, schools, day nurseries and specialist out-reach to single handed and group practices. He carried out teaching and research into the national child health screening programme and community paediatric out reach to primary care. He is currently Consultant and Reader in Paediatrics and Child Public Health at Imperial College London, and established the River Island Academic Centre for Paediatrics and Child Public Health Teaching and Research at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow. Sarah Stewart-Brown joined Warwick Medical School in April 2003 as Professor of Public Health. She became Director of the Health Sciences Research Institute in April 2006. Sarah studied medicine at the University of Oxford and at the Westminster Hospital in London. She worked in the National Health Service from 1975 onwards first as a paediatrician and subsequently as a public health doctor in London Bristol and Worcester. She has also held academic appointments at the Department of Surgery St Mary's Hospital Paddington, and at the Departments of Child Health and of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Bristol. Before joining Warwick Medical School she was Reader in the Department of Public Health at the University of Oxford where she directed the Health Services Research Unit. She has had a long standing interest in the child health aspects of public health working at the interface with colleagues in paediatrics. Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician and clinical senior lecturer working mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne. His chief interests are in child mental health and child public health. He also takes part in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training and has edited a student textbook on paediatrics and a postgraduate text on child public health. Tony leads a research programme on Baby Express, a parenting newsletter designed to help parents understand their child's emotional needs. He is an editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is project manager for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Palestine programme, which trains primary health care workers within the occupied Palestinian territories. Currently he chairs the RCPCH Advocacy Committee.
