Dr Nick Brown, Editor in Chief, Archives of Disease in Childhood

Dr Nick Brown is an acute paediatrician (general, infectious disease, cardiology) and clinical epidemiologist.

"I have had the honour of being Editor in Chief of the international academic child health journal Archives of Disease in Childhood since 2017.

"I have been active as an epidemiologist for the last 25 years, primarily in International Child Health research in South Asia and East Africa. I have been an author on 100 peer reviewed publications. My affiliation with the Aga Khan University has spanned 14 years and, though, primarily centred in Karachi, Pakistan has more recently extended to East Africa and distance mentorship in Afghanistan where I worked clinically earlier in my life. I previously worked as an epidemiologist for a maternal nutrition fetal outcome randomised controlled trial for the Medical Research Council Fetal Origins of Disease Group in Bombay and other parts of India and, earlier, in an academic post at the University of Papua New Guinea.

"I supervise PhD students based in Pakistan and registered in Sweden: recent theses include themes in paediatric oncology, neonatal triage and Shigella dysentery epidemiology. I regularly sit on PhD defence panels, mainly in Stockholm and Uppsala and contribute to multiple PhD, Masters and medical student teaching programmes.

"I have a PhD in epidemiology, an honorary fellowship with the RCPCH, am scientific adviser to the Swedish Paediatric Association (Barnläkarförening/ BLF) global group and the BLF representative for the International Pediatric Association. 

"I have lived in Sweden since 2018 and consider myself very fortunate with the way my life has turned out!"

Nick will be speaking at the afternoon plenary on Tuesday 12 May on Adapting to an ecosystem in flux: Archives at 100.