Helen is an epidemiologist and paediatrician interested in children and young people’s mental health, neurodiversity and inequalities in access to health care services. She is leading a project investigating inequalities in access to mental health services in the Born in Bradford cohort, in parallel to a national analysis of secondary school aged children under the Children and Families Policy Research Unit (CPRU) at University College London (UCL). She has a background in clinical paediatrics, infectious disease epidemiology and global child health, completing her PhD at the Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome research program in Malawi, through the University of Liverpool.