Dr. Kristin Connor is an Associate Professor of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease in the Department of Health Sciences at Carleton University where she runs an interdisciplinary and translational research programme (www.connorlab.ca). She is passionate about improving and supporting maternal, fetal and child health. Her expertise lies in understanding how early life nutrition, including hidden hunger, and maternal health states influence maternal and pregnancy health, and shape the developmental and health trajectories of the fetus and child. Her research interests focus on novel ways to predict individuals at-risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes, suboptimal development, and later chronic disease, and novel interventions to optimise maternal health and early developmental trajectories to reduce the incidence of adverse pregnancy outcomes, poor child growth, and chronic diseases in later life. Amongst other roles, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute for Human Development, Child and Youth Health, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. She is funded through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Molly Towell Perinatal Research Foundation, and Lucky Iron Fish Enterprises, amongst others.