Dear CHIFA members
The January e-bulletin of the International So, the ciety for Pediatrics and CHild Health (ISSOP) is now available on the ISSOP website at the following link
https://www.issop.org/2021/02/02/issop-e-bulletin-no-49-january-2021/
Check out this edition for a global roundup of COVID 19 vaccination progress, a test case on air pollution in UK, the Russian Congress of Pediatricians meeting in Moscow, child rights updates, the COVID 19 vaccination of Palestinians, the programme for the 2021 scientific meetings + much more.
Don't forget to use the website to join ISSOP if you want to be become part of the global network of social paediatricians and child health advocates!
Tony Waterston
CHIFA profile: Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA www.chifa.org He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group.
www.hifa.org/people/steering-group www.hifa.org/support/members/tony
Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk