Dr. Michelle Kelly-Irving is a lifecourse epidemiologist with a research focus on the social determinants of health, and the mechanisms at play to produce social inequalities in health. Her research is on the impact of the early life environment on later health. By taking a lifecourse approach to understanding the complex interactions between population groups and their environments across the life span, her work aims to disentangle the processes leading towards health states. She is passionate about interdisciplinary research on health and wellbeing, and when possible bringing together experts from diverse qualitative and quantitative methodological backgrounds to work on population health as a common objective.