Summary
Helen is a public health physician with a special interest in health protection and infant and maternal vaccine uptake.
Helen is a specialist registrar on the Public Health Medicine specialty training scheme in London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex and has completed training placements in local authority public health departments and Public Health England Health Protection Units. She is on the out of hours and daytime on call rota for Public Health England's South London Health Protection Unit. She has run the taster and shadowing program for those interested in applying to Public Health Medicine for Health Education England since 2015.
Helen trained at Imperial College School of Medicine and completed her foundation programme in the North West Thames Foundation School before doing her masters in Public Health.
AFFILIATIONS
Child Health Unit
Global Digital Health Unit
Publications
Journals
Saso A, Skirrow H, Kampmann B, 2020, Impact of COVID-19 on Immunization Services for Maternal and Infant Vaccines: Results of a Survey Conducted by Imprint—The Immunising Pregnant Women and Infants Network, Vaccines, Vol:8, ISSN:2076-393X
Skirrow H, Holder B, Meinel A, et al., 2020, Evaluation of a midwife-led, hospital based vaccination service for pregnant women., Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, ISSN:1554-8600, Pages:1-10
Saxena S, Skirrow H, Bedford H, 2020, Routine vaccination during covid-19 pandemic response, Bmj-british Medical Journal, Vol:369, ISSN:1756-1833
Saxena S, Skirrow H, Wincott T, et al., 2019, Preschool respiratory hospital admissions following infant bronchiolitis: a birth cohort study, Archives of Disease in Childhood, Vol:104, ISSN:1468-2044, Pages:658-663
White P, Skirrow H, George A, et al., 2018, A systematic review of economic evaluations of local authority commissioned preventative public health interventions in overweight and obesity, physical inactivity, alcohol and illicit drugs use and smoking cessation in the United Kingdom, Journal of Public Health, Vol:40, ISSN:1741-3842, Pages:e521-e530