Dr Ian Sinha, consultant respiratory paediatrician at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool and Inflammation and Immunity Driver Programme member, argues that childhood is a unique window for building lifelong health—but poverty and poor housing can close it. Dr Sinha's team has pioneered joined-up approaches that tackle the social roots of ill health, from founding the world’s first Clean Air Clinic to creating the North West Health and Housing Joint Taskforce and the Liverpool Parent Champion programme, which has cut infant chest infections by 25%. As Sinha notes, ‘there’s no point getting these kids better only to send them back to the very situation that made them sick in the first place.’Click here to read the full article in Big Issue. Publication date 14 Oct, 2025
