Emeritus Professor Mark Hanson
His research concerns nutrition and health across the life-course, starting before conception and with an increasing focus on global health and equity.
Mark was a founder of the Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society and the International DOHaD Society. He co-Chaired the FIGO Pregnancy and NCDs Committee and the Science and Evidence Working Group for the WHO Ending Childhood Obesity Commission.
He chairs the Evidence and Accountability Working Group of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and its Economics and Finance workstream (hosted by WHO).
Mark was also one of the founders of Southampton's pioneering LifeLab initiative. This reflects his interest in education – especially developing adolescents’ health literacy to reduce their later life risk of disease, and to give their future children the best start to life.
He advocates developmental science to inform public health and economic policy.
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