Understanding Health Where It Begins.

Children taught me that health is shaped long before anyone meets a doctor.

Every day, I meet children whose lives reveal something medicine often struggles to see. A child whose asthma is made worse by damp housing. A teenager overwhelmed by anxiety in a world that feels increasingly uncertain. A family trying to navigate systems that were never designed with them in mind.

Medicine is incredibly powerful. But medicine alone is not enough.

As a neurodevelopmental and social paediatrician, I meet children whose lives tell a bigger story about health — one shaped by biology, family, school, poverty, power and belonging. I am interested not only in what makes children ill, but what helps them flourish.

That question has taken me far beyond the clinic.

Alongside clinical practice, I am completing a PhD at King's College London, developing something I call Justice-Based Medicine — an approach that asks what healthcare might look like if dignity, context and fairness were treated as central to good care rather than optional extras.

My training spans paediatrics, public health, psychology, philosophy, social sciences and quality improvement. Together, these disciplines have convinced me that health is not simply a biological phenomenon - it is social, political, cultural and deeply human.

This perspective shapes everything I do: from patient care and professional education to policy work and systems transformation.

Because if we want healthier children, we need healthier communities.

And if we want healthier communities, we need to think differently about health itself.

Areas of Interest

• Neurodevelopment and child development

• Social paediatrics and health inequalities

• Justice-Based Medicine

• Creative health

• Professionalism and healthcare transformation

• Child rights and advocacy

Work With Me

I regularly advise organisations, health systems, charities, universities and policy leaders on child health, health inequalities, co-production, creative health and systems change.

For consultancy, advisory work, training or speaking engagements, I'd love to hear from you.