Dr Ingrid Wolfe is a paediatrician and healthcare public health physician and scientist conducting research about child health services, systems, and policy, with a focus on applied research. Key themes include health systems strengthening, models of care to improve outcomes and equity of care, and population health approaches to prevention and early intervention within healthcare. Recent research includes leading a large scale cluster randomised trial of integrated care (the Children and Young People’s Health Partnership (CYPHP) and cluster RCT), a programme of work developing and testing models of care to improve care coordination and outcomes for children with complex needs and disabilities (NIHR Applied Research Collaboration, South London), leading a multi-centre study investigating and designing a supportive coordinated model of care for children experiencing adversity (NIHR Policy Research Programme, ORACLE, OveRcoming Adverse ChiLdhood Experiences).

Ingrid is currently Director of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South London, leading a large programme of research to improve health and care systems, within a national network of ARCs. She is leading an NIHR i4i randomised control trial on technology to improve outcomes for children with asthma, TEAM Care (Technology Enhanced integrAted asthMa care).

In her clinical role, Ingrid is Deputy Chief Medical Officer (Population Medicine) at Guy’s & St Thomas’ and is Consultant in Paediatric Population Health at Evelina London Children’s Health. Ingrid’s clinical responsibilities include improving early intervention and prevention within healthcare towards enhancing equity of access to care and improving the health of paediatric patients and populations.

Ingrid is Director of King’s Health Partners Women and Children’s Health; and Co-Chair of the British Association for Child and Adolescent Health (BACAPH). She is a Member of the Professional Advisory Group for the National Child Mortality Database Programme, the Health Promotion Committee of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Expert Advisory Group of the European University Hospitals Alliance, and on the Steering Group on Maternal Inequalities, NHS England.

Ingrid is qualified in paediatrics and public health, which enables her to be a children’s doctor in a very broad sense of the term. She has on-the-ground insight from clinical practice, and a population perspective from public health. These two aspects come together in her academic work, which focuses on children’s health services, systems and policy in the UK and European countries, and in the NHS where she is leading work to improve children’s health care and health systems.

Ingrid’s goal is to improve UK child health through strengthening and applying science in children’s health services, systems, and policy, so she publishes and speaks widely on these subjects. She was awarded an OBE for services to children’s health in 2016.