Early Origins of Health
The health trajectory of every child—including their metabolic, cardiovascular, immune and reproductive health, and neurological function—is profoundly influenced by their parents’ health and wellbeing prior to conception, throughout pregnancy, and during early postnatal life.
The Robinson Research Institute leads our research in the early origins of health and is well placed to tackle this challenge, having conducted some of the largest trials in the world investigating interventions in pregnant women and newborn infants to improve outcomes for the mother and child.
A more in-depth explanation of this research area is available on the Robinson Research Institute’s website.
Our research centres and institutes working in this area
- Robinson Research Institute (Professor Sarah Robertson)
Our research groups working in this area
- Allergy and Vaccine Research Group (Professor Michael Gold)
- Cerebral Palsy Research Group (Emeritus Professor Alastair MacLennan)
- Critical and Ethical Mental Health Research Group (Professor Jon Jureidini)
- Early Development Group (Professor Jeremy Thompson)
- Lifelong Health Research (Professor Jodie Dodd)
- Neurogenetics Group (Professor Jozef Gecz)
- Neuroimmunopharmacology Laboratory (Professor Mark Hutchinson)
- Obesity and Metabolism Group (Associate Professor Leonie Heilbronn)
- Ovarian and Reproductive Cancer Cell Biology (Professor Darryl Russell)
- Ovarian Cell Biology (Professor Rebecca Robker)
- Reproductive Immunology Group (Professor Sarah Robertson)
Lead researchers
For additional leads in this area of research, please contact Early Origins of Health researchers.
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