Department of Women's and Children's Health
The Department of Women’s and Children’s Health is internationally renowned for its research and teaching, with specialist groups covering obstetrics, gynaecology, neonatology and medical and surgical paediatrics.
The Department of Women’s and Children’s Health is devoted to understanding and improving women’s reproductive health and health events and outcomes for children and young people, and studying how they determine health and wellbeing throughout a lifetime.
Understanding the molecular mechanisms underpinning disease and developing effective therapies will contribute to the prevention and treatment of chronic pathology, resulting in improved lifetime health and reduced healthcare costs.
Our challenges
Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics
Research aimed at understanding what drives better child development and or influences risk of children with developmental disabilities across settings of adversity globally
Childhood Inflammatory Disease
With a focus on paediatric rheumatology and immunology, this programme links childhood diseases characterized by inflammation (beyond rheumatology) through the identification of shared and unique molecular mechanisms.
Paediatric Respiratory Medicine
Specialised research into childhood respiratory conditions including infections (RSV, COVID etc), asthma and cystic fibrosis
Orthopaedics
Trauma & Orthopaedic Trials for Children Collaborative, delivering a suite of randomised clinical trials which run internationally.
Paediatric Nephrology
The children's kidney workstream is focused on rare kidney diseases with projects performed locally, nationally, and internationally with priorities on age-inclusion, equitable access to treatments and improving the efficiency of the entire translational pathway.
Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology
Delivering all aspects of paediatric drug rand medicine related research from early phase to pharmacovigilance and pharmacogenomics, and the UKs only accredited training centre for clinicians.
Paediatric Surgery
Developing improved procedures and techniques in Paediatric Surgery, with a focus on Hirschsprung’s disease and tissue engineering.
Neonatology
Fostering the development and evaluation of multinational clinical research infrastructures.
Global Women’s Health
Research focussed on improving the experience, access, and outcomes for mothers giving birth in low resource settings across the world. Key programmes include preventing and managing infections and bleeding after childbirth, safe caesarean section, quality of care, and appropriate use of innovations and technology
Centres of Excellence
The Centre for Women’s Health Research
The Centre is jointly funded by University of Liverpool and Liverpool Women’s NHS Trust and houses the Harris Wellbeing Preterm Birth Centre, the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group and the Sanyu Research Unit.
Children's Health Research Team
The Children's Health Research Team, based at the Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, brings together the strengths of the University and NHS in Research, Innovation and Education with outstanding laboratory facilities.
Harris Research Centre
The Centre drives groundbreaking research to improve the health of women, babies, pregnancy, and childbirth worldwide. Established in 2015 with funding from Dame Pauline and Lord Harris of Peckham, the Centre combines cutting-edge labs, clinical facilities and strong partnerships to deliver high-impact results. Through innovative research and close collaboration with women and families, the Centre is transforming care and outcomes on a local, national and global scale
Experimental Arthritis Treatment Centre for Children (EATC4Children) UK JSLE Cohort Study and Repository
This UK-wide study is amongst the largest national cohort of childhood lupus in the world, leading global collaborations in innovation, excellence and pioneering research, tackling treat-to-target, clinical, genetic, and translational challenges of this archetypal systemic autoimmune disease.
Case studies
Improving children’s outcomes in paediatric medicine
Which are the best drugs to choose when treating children? And what is the best dose?
The Options Study
The Options Study
Predicting and providing choices for avoiding emergency caesarean in first pregnancies
