We don't remember what went on during our first 1,000 days, but those 'secret' events affect our health for life.
Lucy Green researches and teaches early development effects on lifelong health at the University of Southampton. She advocates for the physiological sciences with the International Society for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, as a Trustee of the Physiological Society, and as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (where she holds the 2019 Senior Investigator Outreach and Engagement Award), and as Head of Engagement in the Faculty of Medicine. She champions public understanding of science including as a British Science Association Media Fellow at the BBC, innovating engagement activities for science festivals and devising health-science experiences for young people which enable them to question expert panels and steer the discussion of big health issues. She lives with her family (of 5,000, 6,000 and 20,000 days) in Hampshire.
