“Toxic poverty” – improving maternal, infant and child health
Date
2012-11
Authors
Tomlinson, Mark
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Publisher
Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
Abstract
Professor Mark Tomlinson is based in the Department of
Psychology at Stellenbosch University and received his
PhD in Psychology from the University of Reading in the
United Kingdom. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department
of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of
Cape Town.
His scholarly work has involved a diverse range of topics
that have in common an interest in factors that contribute
to infant and child development in contexts of high adversity,
and how best to prevent compromised infant and child
development in these contexts. He has completed research
investigating the impact of maternal depression on infant and
child development.
He has also completed four large randomised controlled
trials, all of which have examined the impact of interventions delivered by
community health workers on maternal and child health. He is on the editorial
boards of PLoS Medicine and Psychology, Health and Medicine, and is an
Associate Editor of the Infant Mental Health Journal.
He currently is one of two research directors of the Programme for Improving
Mental Health Care (PRIME). PRIME is a consortium of research institutions
and ministries of health in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa and Uganda. He
has received research grants from the Wellcome Trust (UK), the National
Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) (USA), the National
Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) (USA), the Department for International
Development (DfID) (UK), the Swedish International Development Agency
(SIDA), and from Grand Challenges Canada. Mark is the husband of Natasha,
and the father of Sebastian and Benjamin.
Description
Inaugural lecture delivered on 13 November 2012
Keywords
Maternal health services, Infant health services, Children -- Health and hygiene