Dr Ian Sinha is Inflammation and Immunity鈥檚 Lead researcher for Alder Hey Children鈥檚 Hospital in Liverpool.
A Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician at Alder Hey and an Honorary Associate Professor in Child Health at the University of Liverpool, Ian鈥檚 expertise and areas of interest focus on paediatric asthma, neonatal lung diseases, and the social determinants of respiratory health, particularly the impact of poverty on child health.
Ian has substantial experience in understanding and addressing health inequalities, including developing frameworks to address these issues in children and supporting ongoing advocacy work at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Ian is dedicated to improving child health outcomes and holds several prominent national roles, including serving as the clinical lead for the Children and Young People’s Workstream of the National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme and as a specialty advisor for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on asthma guidelines. Leveraging these networks and his experience, Ian is working closely with the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) team within Inflammation and Immunity, to develop a 4-nation paediatric PPI working group which will help inform project development and ensure health data are used appropriately to improve health outcomes for young people and their families.
