Diana Kuh is Emeritus Professor of Life Course Epidemiology at UCL. Diana was the founding Director of the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL and Director of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (the oldest of the British birth cohort studies) from 2007-17. In a broad range of more than 500 publications, Diana created and advanced the field of life course epidemiology which studies how biological, psychological and social factors across life affect adult health, ageing and chronic disease risk.