Dr Tamsin Newlove-Delgado

About me:

Tamsin Newlove-Delgado is an Associate Professor in Child Public Mental Health and Director of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Research Collaboration (ChYMe).  She is also an Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine with the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID). 

Influenced by her clinical experience in child and adolescent psychiatry prior to entering public health, Tamsin's research concentrates on public health aspects of the mental health of children and young people, with a particular interest in the transition from child to adult services, and in the application of epidemiological methods for service planning. She has recently completed an NIHR Advanced Fellowship, which studied time trends in child and adolescent mental health and mental health related service contacts (the CHANGES project). Tamsin is an academic consultant on the NHS England Mental Health of Children and Young People in England survey series and co-leads the academic input to the survey consortium. She also has a research focus on neurodevelopmental conditions including ADHD, and is Chair of the Exeter-based NIHR-funded Team Science Award: "Interdisciplinary Approach to Multimorbidity and Multiple Long Term Conditions in Young People with ADHD".

Tamsin completed her PhD with the Child Mental Health Group in 2016, which was funded by an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship. Her PhD examined mental health related service contact in school aged children and transition from child to adult services in young people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Following her PhD, she was appointed to an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer post, working with the Child Mental Health Group while she completed her Public Health training. Tamsin was a co-investigator on the Children and adolescents with ADHD in transition between children’s services and adult services (CATCh-uS) study and is particularly interested in the roles and perspectives of GPs regarding managing ADHD in young people in primary care.

Tamsin has a strong interest in supporting junior clinical and public health academics and in encouraging students and trainees to consider clinical academic careers. She is an accredited academic supervisor, as well as the Specialty Tutor for the University of Exeter for the South West Public Health Training Scheme, and Lead for the NIHR IAT programme at Exeter, with responsibility for NIHR Academic Clinical Fellows and Clinical Lecturers: Clinical Academic Training Programme | Clinical Academic Training Hub | University of Exeter.

Research specialisms

Tamsin’s main area of specialism is in child psychiatric epidemiology and health services research. Her previous research has involved large dataset analysis using the British Child and Adolescent Mental Health Surveys, and the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, utilising methods such as survival analysis. She also has experience in mixed methods health services research and qualitative research with young people, and has worked as a reviewer and author on large systematic reviews.

Tamsin also has expertise in the use of surveillance systems and sits on the Executive Board of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Surveillance Service (CAPSS). She led the first ever surveillance study of Sydenham's chorea, conducted through the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit and CAPSS, working with colleagues across the UK and Ireland, funded by the Paul Polani Prize from the British Academy of Childhood Disability and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and by the Helen H Lawson Award from the BMA Foundation.

Interests:

Tamsin’s main research interests are in public health aspects of child mental health, including:

• Mental health related contact with services
• Trends over time
• Transition from child to adult services
• ADHD in young people
• Primary care management of ADHD
• Surveillance methods

Qualifications:

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), 2023
• Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH), 2018
• Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Public Health Medicine, 2018
• PhD Medical Studies 2016, University of Exeter
• Member of the Faculty of Public Health (MFPH) 2011
• Master of Public Health (Distinction) 2010, Cardiff University
• Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych) 2008
• MBChB (Hons) 2003, Leicester University Medical School