Tony Long

Dr Tony Long is Professor of Child & Family Health and the Director ofCYP@Salford: a multi-professional research group focused on enhancing services, improving outcomes and evidencing impacts on children and families. His collaborates with NHS consultants, for example in augmenting quality of life during survivorship after a brain tumour, enhancing decision-making in the children’s emergency department, and improving the response to parents after sudden and unexpected death in childhood. He also supports research programmes in young people’s mental health and working with schools to deliver public health interventions. With his colleagues, he works to develop novel means of engagement with children and young people, commonly taking research to them in a mobile research laboratory.