karen edmond

Karen Edmond is developing an active program of research work in the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD). The focus is currently on the developmental origins of infectious diseases in neonates and young infants living in deprived and marginalized communities. This includes testing the impact of nutritional interventions (such as vitamin A supplementation and breastfeeding) on immune function and infectious disease outcomes in term and low birth weight infants, studies on infectious disease aetiology, assessing the importance of novel and underutilized vaccines, assessing interactions between nutritional and vaccine related interventions, evaluating the long term neurodevelopmental sequelae of these interventions and evaluating health system approaches for implemention. The emphasis is on developing an evidence base for feasible interventions that can influence public health policy and practice and an increasingly active role in public health policy and practice.