Margaret Morris, Professor and Head of Pharmacology at UNSW (The University of New South Wales) Sydney, has a PhD in Medicine (Monash) and postdoctoral training in neuroscience. Morris leads the Environmental determinants of obesity research group within the School of Medical Sciences, where she investigates the impact of adverse early life events and lifestyle factors on chronic disease risk.
Her research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of obesity through both maternal and paternal lines and the psychology of eating, e.g. how does provision of a varied, energy rich...Read more