About us
how we started …
Founded in 1994, The Mother and Child Foundation was established to advance the interests of mothers and their infants through medical research, education and community action. Too little attention has been given to the mother, her health and nutrition, despite its central importance. That is why the primary goal of the Foundation is to improve maternal health and prevent disability and chronic ill-health in the new born. These objectives are being addressed by work in the East-end and in other London Medical Schools, Bangladesh, Nigeria, South Africa and China. The Foundation opened the Mother and Baby Clinic in Hackney to acts as a focus for community action and research in 1994.
our missions are …
To relieve the sickness and disability and preserve and protect the health of newborn infants of low birth weight.
To advance the education of the medical and nursing profession, general public and particularly the parents of such children concerning low birth weight, its causes and effects.
To promote and assist research, prevention, alleviation and management of such ill health and disability.
our board of members …
Patron
The Most Reverend Archbishop Desmond Tutu, OMS, DD, FKC
Chairman
Major Christopher Robinson
Vice-Presidents
Ms Anne Dawson-Shepherd; Professor Cedric Hassall, DSc, FRS; Mrs Frances Kelly Hilton; Dr Alan Garton, FRSE, FRS
Treasurer/Research Director
Professor Michael A. Crawford, PhD, CBiol, FSB, FRCPath
UK Directors
Mrs Hazel Clayton; Lord Rea of Eskdale, MD, FRCGP; Dr Zehra Hassam, MB ChB, FRCPath; Dr Robert E. Lister, PhD, CBiol, FSB; Mr Michael Pirkis, Dip Agric; Mrs Rosemary Turnbull Tarn;
Sir Kenneth Stuart, MD, DSc, FRCP, FRCPPE, FACP, FFPM, FFPHM, DTM&H
USA Director
Dr David J. Kyle
Secretary
Rachel V Gow
administration …
The Foundation does not, at this time, have its own premises. The work is voluntary and there are no paid staff.
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Email: office@dub.co.uk
