| Notes |
Professor of Psychology, Ellen Townsend told the MPs and Peers: “It is unclear what mass testing healthy children is achieving from a Public Health perspective. No studies have been carried out to understand if there are any benefits and no evaluation has been done on the psychological impact of testing - this is a grave and unethical oversight. We must recognise that children are at minimal risk to others but the harms caused to children, the disruption of testing protocols in schools and the resulting absences, are completely disproportionate to the proclaimed benefits of indiscriminate mass testing. The president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health was quite correct when she said last year that testing in schools was causing unnecessary chaos.”
Professor Ellen Townsend
Ellen Townsend is Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham where she leads the Self-Harm Research Group. She is a Visiting Professor at the Nottingham Institute of Mental Health. Her research has influenced policy and clinical practice. She is currently co-leading an MRC funded Programme on Adolescent Mental Health and Development in the Digital World.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230609163807/https://appgpandemic.org/news/mass-testing-of-children
Professor Townsend did not declare any relationship to Collateral Global, which initially funded the APPG to c.30k which included a funded secretariat.
Or HART, of which Townsend was formerly a member, whose press relations officer Jemma Moran provided that secretariat |