Child Health Outcomes Research at Leeds (CHORAL)
CHORAL is an exciting new platform to support and develop child health research across Leeds. CHORAL aims to improve children’s lives through the delivery of a sustainable programme of transformative research focussed on child health.
CHORAL links key areas of strength within Leeds, including innovative ‘Big Data’ linkage, the study of the wider determinants of social, physical and mental health, and children’s cancer translational research.
Over the past year, CHORAL has:
- Awarded the first rounds of Simon Newell and Leeds Hospitals Charity Child Health Research Prizes for post graduate and undergraduate researchers.
- Published an All Party Parliamentary Group Report Addressing Education and Health Inequity: Perspectives from the North of England and played a leading role in delivering a major report series “A country that works for all children and young people” with Child of the North and Centre for Young Lives, showing how putting the interests and life chances of children and young people (CYP) at the heart of policymaking and delivery is crucial to Britain’s future.
- Created a vibrant community of child health researchers in Leeds, including an Early Career Researcher peer support group and regular networking sessions.
- Supported the appointment of a new NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in health data linkage.
- Supported multiple NIHR Academic Clinical Foundation posts exploiting local data assets such as the Paediatric Intensive Care Clinical Audit Network (PICANet) and Yorkshire Specialist Register of Cancer in Children and Young People (YSRCCYP) to examine variation in specialist PICU transport services and describe cardio-metabolic late effects of cancer treatment.
We are also currently:
- Supporting establishment of the Yorkshire and Humber Secure Data Environment to enhance data linkage across the region and improve outcomes for Children and Young People, using PICANet and YSRCCYP datasets.
- Offering statistical consultancy support to child health researchers.