Sarah Bekaert Oxford Brookes University, UK
Sarah Bekaert is a senior lecturer in child health at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her current research focuses on teenage pregnancy and parenthood, and issues pertaining to the teenage years such as intimate partner violence. She has published several textbooks relating to contraception and reproductive health, and teenage health care. She has many years of experience working with teenagers in Hackney—one of the poorest boroughs in London, UK and as a school nurse, with young offenders and with children in care. She was co-founder of CHYPS Plus, a teenage health demonstration site in Hackney, commissioned by the Department of Health to provide creative and innovative health care for vulnerable young people.
