The Research Centre for Early Origins of Health and Disease will maintain a multidisciplinary research approach into the future to ensure our research focuses on the issues most relevant to human health.

The Centre will continue to assist in the translation of research outcomes into guidelines and interventions for early life to promote health.

Research priorities for the centre include:

• Defining genetic factors that interact with the early life environment to influence metabolic, respiratory, neurological and reproductive health in postnatal life, particularly as we age
• Identifying epigenetic pathways in early life programming of later metabolic and neurological health
• Demonstrating early life programming of risk of cancer, including prostate cancer, and the underlying pathways

The Research Centre for Early Origins of Health and Disease is also looking to expand on core facilities to include non-invasive body composition analysis of infants and adults and cutting edge MRI facilities.