Dr Michael Kwan Leung Yu: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- First-author of LeDeR 2024 report and Post-Doctoral Research Associate at King's IoPPN
- Quoted on
- Learning disability & autism
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“From an epidemiological point of view, LeDeR offers a unique national perspective. Its large sample size supports more robust and reliable conclusions than can be drawn at the regional level and of individual NHS trusts, identifying important priorities for national healthcare policy for people with a learning disability and autistic people.”
What Dr Michael Kwan Leung Yu has said
“LeDeR provides a unique national lens that no single trust or region can offer. Its scale allows us, for the first time, to examine avoidable deaths among adults with severe or profound intellectual disabilities through a population-based analysis and explore this in greater detail.”
Post-Doctoral Research Associate at King's IoPPN · Learning disability & autism · 30 Sept 2026 · People with severe intellectual disability are dying 24 years younger than the general population ↗
“LeDeR provides a unique national lens that no single trust or region can offer. Its scale allows us, for the first time, to examine avoidable deaths among adults with severe or profound intellectual disabilities through a population-based analysis and explore this in greater detail.”
Postdoctoral research associate at King's College · Learning disability & autism · 30 Sept 2026 · People with severe intellectual disabilities live 24 years less on average ↗
Where Dr Michael Kwan Leung Yu has been quoted
- Fewer people with a learning disability dying from avoidable causes, but still almost twice as high as the general populationkcl.ac.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- People with severe intellectual disability are dying 24 years younger than the general populationkcl.ac.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- People with severe intellectual disabilities live 24 years less on averagetheguardian.com · 30 Sept 2026
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