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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 logo 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 logo orcid.org/0000-0001-9921-5105 Expertise: Neonatology, developmental pharmacology Dr Malcolm Brodlie, BSc (Hons), MB ChB, MRCPCH, PhD Newcastle University Newcastle, UK ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0003-4591-8299 Expertise: Paediatric respiratory medicine Professor Morris Gordon, PhD, MMed, MBChB University of Central Lancashire Preston, UK ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0002-1216-5158 Expertise: Gastroenterology
Dr Vandana Prasad, MBBS, MRCP (Ped), MPH Public Health Resource Network Noida, India ORCID logoorcid.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 logo 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 logo 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 logo orcid.org/0000-0002-3069-6323 Expertise: Paediatrics, paediatric clinical pharmacology
Associate Editors
Dr Anoo Bhopti, PhD Monash University Victoria, Australia ORCID logo 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 logo orcid.org/0000-0003-4647-0019 Expertise: Paediatric emergency Dr Erva Nur Cinar London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London, UK ORCID logoorcid.org/0009-0000-4831-1631 Expertise: Global child health, public health Dr Shivashankar Diggikar Oyster Woman and Child Hospital Bengaluru, India ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-6259-3118 Expertise: Neonatology Dr Jon Dorling, MBChB, DCH, MD University Hospital Southampton Southampton, UK ORCID logo 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 logoorcid.org/0000-0001-7791-7405 Expertise: Nephrology Professor Piyush Gupta, MD, FAMS, FIAP, FNNF, FRCPCH University College of Medical Sciences Delhi, India ORCID logoorcid.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 logo 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 logo 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 logo orcid.org/0000-0001-6319-8550 Expertise: Paediatric emergency medicine Dr Alisdair McNeill University of Sheffield Sheffield, UK ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0001-5702-3631 Expertise: Neurogenetics Associate Professor Ju-Lee Oei Royal Hospital for Women Randwick, NSW, Australia ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-7799-3771 Expertise: Neonatology, perinatal health Dr Shalini Ojha, PhD, MRCPCH, MD, MBBS University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK ORCID logoorcid.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 logoorcid.org/0000-0002-3826-0583 Expertise: Global child health, early childhood developmen Dr Daniel O'Reilly University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-8575-2353 Expertise: Neonatal and paediatric critical care, proteomics Dr Arun Prasath University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, USA ORCID logoorcid.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 logo orcid.org/0000-0001-9773-2192 Expertise: Tropical and emerging diseases Dr Santuri Rungan University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-2254-7798 Expertise: Community paediatrics, adolescent health Dr María Camila Pinzón Segura Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogota, Colombia ORCID logoorcid.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 logo 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 logoorcid.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 logo orcid.org/0000-0002-0710-6698 Expertise: Clinical pharmacology, neonatology Professor Saskia de Wildt, MD, PhD Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen, the Netherlands ORCID logo 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 logoorcid.org/0000-0002-6954-5071 Professor Tao Xiong, MD, PhD West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University Chengdu, China ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-0408-1288 Expertise: Neonatology Dr Linan Zeng, PhD West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University Chengdu, China ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0001-9892-2000 Expertise: Systematic review, guideline development Professor Wei Zhao, PharmD; PhD Shandong University Jinan, China ORCID logo 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 logoorcid.org/0009-0000-4831-1631 Expertise: Global child health, public health
Dr Arun Prasath University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, USA ORCID logoorcid.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 logoorcid.org/0000-0003-3997-3726 Expertise: Public health, child psychiatry Evelyne Jacqz-Aigrain, MD, PhD Université Paris Diderot Paris, France ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-4285-7067  Raúl Mercer, MD, MSc FLACSO (Latin American School of Social Sciences) Buenos Aires, Argentina ORCID logoorcid.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 logoorcid.org/0000-0002-2558-7421 Luis Rajmil, MD, MPH, PhD Agència de Qualitat i Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya Barcelona, Spain ORCID logoorcid.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