Dr Jessica Kerr (BA(Psych), PhD) is mid-career research fellow in adolescent population health and non-communicable disease epidemiology with joint appointments at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and the University of Otago (New Zealand). She is also an Honorary Research Fellow with the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. Dr Kerr is a lead investigator on several longitudinal population-based cohort studies and is a senior collaborator with the Global Burden of Disease Study. Using these resources, her research focuses on obesity and non-communicable disease risk across the entire developmental window from infancy to young adulthood, with expertise in obesity burden, epidemiology, and associated disease outcomes. Focus has also been paid to child and adolescent nutrition, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular risk, and premature mortality.