Chloe Parkin is based in the Population, Policy and Practice Programme at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH).  She has been based in the Centre for Policy Research headed up by Professor Catherine Law since 2008.

Chloe is a research manager for Catherine Law’s research group.

Her main role is the management of the Policy Research Unit in the Health of Children, Young People and Families (CPRU) which is funded by the Department of Health's Policy Research Programme (2011-2018). CPRU is a consortium led from the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) in partnership with the National Children's Bureau (NCB), the Anna Freud Centre and the Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE). Chloe is responsible for the operational running of the Unit and also works with individual members of the consortium to support and co-ordinate research.

Prior to this role Chloe was Head of Policy and Communications at the UK Faculty of Public Health for six years. Here, she held a wide portfolio of responsibilities which gave her a broad insight into UK public health policy and structures.

Chloe’s academic background is in the humanities. She has a PhD in eighteenth-century French medical and cultural history from the University of Warwick.