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BMJ Paediatrics Open Editors and Associate Editors have agreed and adhere to the BMJ Editor Roles and Responsibilities guidelines; including our Editor policy on competing interests.
Editor-in-Chief
Professor Shanti Raman, MBBS, MAE, PhD, FRACP
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
orcid.org/0000-0002-4546-3231
Expertise: Child public health, migrant and refugee health
Declaration of Interests: Nothing to declare
Deputy Editor
Professor Karel Allegaert, MD, PhD
University Hospitals Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
orcid.org/0000-0001-9921-5105
Expertise: Neonatology, developmental pharmacology
Dr Malcolm Brodlie, BSc (Hons), MB ChB, MRCPCH, PhD
Newcastle University
Newcastle, UK
orcid.org/0000-0003-4591-8299
Expertise: Paediatric respiratory medicine
Professor Morris Gordon, PhD, MMed, MBChB
University of Central Lancashire
Preston, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-1216-5158
Expertise: Gastroenterology
Dr Vandana Prasad, MBBS, MRCP (Ped), MPH
Public Health Resource Network
Noida, India
orcid.org/0000-0003-0640-4965
Expertise: Public health, nutrition
Professor Manu Raj, MBBS, DNB, MSc, FRCPCH
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham
Kerala, India
orcid.org/0000-0001-7130-3437
Expertise: Cardiovascular health in children and adolescents
Global Child Health Editor
Assistant Professor Peter Rohloff, MD PhD
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA USA
orcid.org/0000-0001-7274-8315
Expertise: Global health
Commissioning Editor
Professor Imti Choonara, MBChB, MD, FRCPCH, DTM&H
Derbyshire Children’s Hospital
University of Nottingham
Derby, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-3069-6323
Expertise: Paediatrics, paediatric clinical pharmacology
Associate Editors
Dr Anoo Bhopti, PhD
Monash University
Victoria, Australia
orcid.org/0000-0002-5814-2242
Expertise: Occupational therapy
Assistant Professor Shu-Ling Chong, MBBS, MRCPCH, MCI, MPH
KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Singapore
orcid.org/0000-0003-4647-0019
Expertise: Paediatric emergency
Dr Erva Nur Cinar
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, UK
orcid.org/0009-0000-4831-1631
Expertise: Global child health, public health
Dr Shivashankar Diggikar
Oyster Woman and Child Hospital
Bengaluru, India
orcid.org/0000-0002-6259-3118
Expertise: Neonatology
Dr Jon Dorling, MBChB, DCH, MD
University Hospital Southampton
Southampton, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-1691-3221
Expertise: Neonatology
Dr Angel Escobedo, Msc
Hospital Pediátrico Universitario “Borrás Marfán”
Havana, Cuba
Expertise: Medical microbiology
Dr Sukanya Govindan
Dr. Mehta's Children's Hospital
Chennai, India
orcid.org/0000-0001-7791-7405
Expertise: Nephrology
Professor Piyush Gupta, MD, FAMS, FIAP, FNNF, FRCPCH
University College of Medical Sciences
Delhi, India
orcid.org/0000-0002-3945-3774
Expertise: Nutrition, social paediatrics, medical education, infectious diseases, clinical trials
Associate Professor Nigel Hall, MA MB BChir MRCPCH FRCS(Eng) PhD
University of Southampton
Southampton, UK
orcid.org/0000-0001-8570-9374
Expertise: Paediatric and neonatal surgery
Dr Alison Kelly, MBChB, MRCPCH
Specialist Children’s Services, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Glasgow, UK
orcid.org/0000-0003-0882-1885
Expertise: Developmental paediatrics, neurodisability
Dr Ian K Maconochie, MB BS
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare Trust NHS
Professor of Practice in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Imperial College
London, UK
orcid.org/0000-0001-6319-8550
Expertise: Paediatric emergency medicine
Dr Alisdair McNeill
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, UK
orcid.org/0000-0001-5702-3631
Expertise: Neurogenetics
Associate Professor Ju-Lee Oei
Royal Hospital for Women
Randwick, NSW, Australia
orcid.org/0000-0002-7799-3771
Expertise: Neonatology, perinatal health
Dr Shalini Ojha, PhD, MRCPCH, MD, MBBS
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, UK
orcid.org/0000-0001-5668-4227
Expertise: Neonatology, global child health
Dr Bolajoko O. Olusanya, MBBS, FMCPaed, FRCPCH, PhD
Centre for Healthy Start Initiative
Lagos, Nigeria
orcid.org/0000-0002-3826-0583
Expertise: Global child health, early childhood developmen
Dr Daniel O'Reilly
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
orcid.org/0000-0002-8575-2353
Expertise: Neonatal and paediatric critical care, proteomics
Dr Arun Prasath
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, USA
orcid.org/0000-0002-2804-9311
Expertise: Neonatal resuscitation, transitional physiology, cardio-pulmonary physiology
Professor Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, MD, MSc, DTM&H, DipEd, FFTM RCPS(Glasg), FACE, FISAC, HonDSc
Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas
Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
orcid.org/0000-0001-9773-2192
Expertise: Tropical and emerging diseases
Dr Santuri Rungan
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
orcid.org/0000-0003-2254-7798
Expertise: Community paediatrics, adolescent health
Dr María Camila Pinzón Segura
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Bogota, Colombia
orcid.org/0000-0002-4191-7435
Expertise: Qualitative methodology, social paediatrics, southern epistemologies
Dr Guddi Singh, BA, MB BChir, MPH, MRCPCH, EADTM&H
Kings College London
London, UK
orcid.org/0000-0003-3263-393X
Expertise: Child health, child development, global health, social paediatrics, philosophy, bioethics, quality improvement, qualitative and mixed methods, social policy
Dr Jasbir Singh
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Bilaspur, India
orcid.org/0000-0001-7721-5614
Expertise: Paediatric infections, neonatology, neonatology quality improvement, paediatric and neonatal care in LMICs, telemedicine
Professor Anne Smits, MD, PhD
University Hospitals Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
orcid.org/0000-0002-0710-6698
Expertise: Clinical pharmacology, neonatology
Professor Saskia de Wildt, MD, PhD
Radboud University Nijmegen
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
orcid.org/0000-0002-0502-0647
Expertise: Paediatric intensive care, clinical pharmacology
Professor Susan Woolfenden, MBBS, FRACP, MPH, PhD
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
orcid.org/0000-0002-6954-5071
Professor Tao Xiong, MD, PhD
West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University
Chengdu, China
orcid.org/0000-0002-0408-1288
Expertise: Neonatology
Dr Linan Zeng, PhD
West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University
Chengdu, China
orcid.org/0000-0001-9892-2000
Expertise: Systematic review, guideline development
Professor Wei Zhao, PharmD; PhD
Shandong University
Jinan, China
orcid.org/0000-0002-1830-338X
Expertise: Paediatric clinical pharmacology
Social Media Editors
Dr Erva Nur Cinar
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, UK
orcid.org/0009-0000-4831-1631
Expertise: Global child health, public health
Dr Arun Prasath
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, USA
orcid.org/0000-0002-2804-9311
Expertise: Neonatal resuscitation, transitional physiology, cardio-pulmonary physiology
Editorial Advisory Board
Maurizio Bonati, MD
Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Milan, Italy
orcid.org/0000-0003-3997-3726
Expertise: Public health, child psychiatry
Evelyne Jacqz-Aigrain, MD, PhD
Université Paris Diderot
Paris, France
orcid.org/0000-0002-4285-7067
Raúl Mercer, MD, MSc
FLACSO (Latin American School of Social Sciences)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
orcid.org/0000-0002-8616-0827
Expertise: Social paediatrics – child rights
Archana Patel, MD, DNB (Pediatrics)
Program Director, Lata Medical Research Foundation
Nagpur, India
Expertise: Clinical epidemiology, community medicine
orcid.org/0000-0002-2558-7421
Luis Rajmil, MD, MPH, PhD
Agència de Qualitat i Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain
orcid.org/0000-0002-6625-0649
Expertise: Inequalities in child health, health-related quality of life in children
Catherine Sherwin
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, USA
Statistical Reviewers
Emmanouil Bagkeris
University College London Medical School
London, UK
Javier Ballesteros
University of the Basque Country
Leioa, Spain
Peter Flom
Peter Flom Consulting
New York, NY USA
Katie Harron
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
London, UK
Rachel Mary Hilliam
The Open University Mathematics and Statistics
UK
ChuanChin Huang
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA USA
Conrad Byera Kabali
Ontario Health
Ontario, Canada
Chester Kalinda
University of Global Health Equity
Kigali, Rwanda
Eirini Koutoumanou
University College London
London, UK
Dean Langan
University College London
London, UK
Jeremy Miles
Google, Inc.
Venice, CA USA
Sarah Nevitt
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, UK
Chibueze Ogbonnaya
University College London
London, UK
Nina Paynter
Arlington, MA USA
Publishing Team
Publishing Executive: Anna Savage
Senior Publisher: Henry Spilberg
Head of Portfolio: Kathleen Lyons