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Her research has focussed on addressing prognostic, diagnostic, and intervention questions to inform policy on screening, particularly for infections in pregnancy and early childhood (eg: toxoplasmosis and group B streptococcal infection). Her expertise is in the use of evidence synthesis methods, involving systematic reviews, meta-analysis, primary studies and analyses of routinely collected data, to address policy questions. She has authored publications in epidemiology, paediatrics and infectious diseases, published several books on evidence-based child health, and is associate editor for the International Journal of Epidemiology. She has served on several national committees including the Specialist Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance – Paediatric Sub-Group and has contributed to National Screening Committee working groups and NICE guideline committees.
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Ruth Gilbert is a clinically qualified and accredited paediatrician trained in
epidemiology. She is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Centre for Paediatric
Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Child
Health, UCL Institute of Child Health and Honorary Consultant Epidemiologist at
Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust.