British paediatrician
Catherine S. Peckham (née King) CBE FMedSci FRCP FRCPath FRCOG FRCPCH FFPHM [ 1] is a British paediatrician .
Peckham was the first Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology in the UK, and established the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UCL Institute of Child Health , University College London.[ 2] [ 3] The Peckham Lecture is given each year at the Institute of Child Health.[ 4]
Peckham was born in London, the daughter of Alexander King , and spent her early years in the USA. She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School [ 5] and at University College London . She was married to Sir Michael Peckham .
As a clinical epidemiologist Peckham is best known for her work on infections in pregnancy, particularly rubella , cytomegalovirus [ 6] and HIV, and their impact on the fetus and developing child. She showed that rubella damage caused by exposure to maternal infection during pregnancy could continue after birth.[ 7] She worked on the early rubella vaccine trials and was instrumental in setting up the National Congenital Rubella Surveillance Programme.[ 8] [ 9]
In 1986 she founded the multi-centre European Collaborative Study (ECS) on HIV in mothers and children with Carlo Giaquinto.[ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13] She was instrumental in establishing the national surveillance of HIV infection in pregnancy and childhood.[ 14] Her study of vaccination for infectious diseases in childhood was published by Action Research as the Peckham Report in 1989.[ 15] In 1986 she co-founded the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit.[ 16] From 2005 to 2007 she chaired the Scientific Coordinating Group for the Government's Foresight Programme on the Future Challenge of infectious Diseases.[ 17]
Peckham has been closely involved in national birth cohort studies[ 18] and the influence of biological, social and environmental factors in early life on later development has been a central theme in her work.[ 19]
National and international positions [ edit ] Chair, Positive Action for Children Fund, 2010–[ 20]
Chair, Medical Research Council Review of Gulf War Related Illness[ 21]
Vice-President of Fonds de Solidarite Therapeutique Internationale 1998–2000[ 22]
Chair, WHO Epidemiological Research and Forecasting, Global Programme on Aids, 1991–94
Member then vice-chair, Nuffield Council on Bioethics , 1999–2006[ 23]
Chair, Medical Research Council Human Fertilization and Embryology Working Group on children conceived by Assisted Reproduction, 2004[ 24]
Chair, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Working Party on Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality (2008/9)[ 25]
US-UK Fulbright Commissioner, Fulbright Commission 1986–1994)
non-executive director, Advertising Standards Authority 1993–1999
Vice-Chair, Board of Governors St Paul's Girls' School London, 1993–2006
Governor of St Paul's School
Member of Council, Institute of Education 1999–2007
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^ Peckham, Catherines.; Coleman, Johnc.; Hurley, Rosalinde; Kong Shin Chin; Henderson, Kathy; Preece, Philipm. (1983). "Cytomegalovirus Infection in Pregnancy: Preliminary Findings From A Prospective Study" . The Lancet . 321 (8338): 1352–1355. doi :10.1016/S0140-6736(83)92138-4 . PMID 6134135 . S2CID 12597118 . Retrieved 28 July 2012 .
^ Catherine S. Peckham (1 August 1972). "Clinical and Laboratory Study of Children Exposed in utero to Maternal Rubella – Peckham 47 (254): 571" . Archives of Disease in Childhood . 47 (254): 571–577. doi :10.1136/adc.47.254.571 . PMC 1648297 . PMID 5046774 .
^ Tookey, P. A.; Peckham, C. S. (1999). "Surveillance of congenital rubella in Great Britain, 1971–96" . BMJ . 318 (7186): 769–770. doi :10.1136/bmj.318.7186.769 . PMC 27790 . PMID 10082699 .
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^ Original TextThe European Collaborative Study 1 (1988). "Mother-To-Child Transmission of Hiv Infection" . The Lancet . 332 (8619): 1039–1043. doi :10.1016/S0140-6736(88)90063-3 . S2CID 54348316 . Retrieved 28 July 2012 . ((cite journal ))
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^ Peckham, Catherine; Gibb, Diana (1995). "Mother-to-Child Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus". New England Journal of Medicine . 333 (5): 298–303. doi :10.1056/NEJM199508033330507 . PMID 7596375 .
^ "HIV: European Collaborative Study on HIV-infected pregnant women and their children" . University College London. Retrieved 28 July 2012 .
^ Davison, C.F.; Hudson, C.N.; Ades, A.E.; Peckham, C.S. (1989). "Antenatal Testing For Human Immunodeficiency Virus" . The Lancet . 334 (8677): 1442–1444. doi :10.1016/S0140-6736(89)92045-X . PMID 2574370 . S2CID 44624057 . Retrieved 28 July 2012 .
^ Peckham, Catherine A. (26 June 1989). The Peckham Report: National Immunisation Study : Factors Influencing Immunisation Uptake in Childhood . Department of Paediatric Epidemiology, Institute of Child Health. ISBN 9780900931376 . Retrieved 26 June 2022 – via Google Books.
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^ "Infectious Diseases: preparing for the future. Executive Summary. Office of Science and Innovation" (PDF) . London: Foresight. 2006.
^ Peckham, CS (24 May 2012). "A national study of child development (NCDS 1958 cohort). Preliminary findings in a national sample of 11-year-old children" . Proc. R. Soc. Med . 66 (7): 701–3. PMC 1645076 . PMID 4741414 .
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^ "Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality in England, Scotland and Wales | Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists" . Rcog.org.uk. 25 June 2010. Archived from the original on 1 February 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2012 .
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