Professor Jenny Kurinczuk is a perinatal epidemiologist, Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit and Co-Director of the Department of Health funded Policy Research Unit in Maternal Health and Care at the University of Oxford. Following medical training and postgraduate training in epidemiology and public health her research career has been focused primarily on the health of mothers and babies, risks to their health, and research in policy and practice to improve health outcomes.