Diana Jane Lewin Kuh is a British epidemiologist who is an emeritus professor of Life Course Epidemiology at University College London.
She moved to the University of Exeter, where she worked in the Operational Research Unit using mainframe computer models to allocate funding for healthcare.
[citation needed] Her first work using the cohort study looked to understand the origins of cardiovascular disease and the contributions of early exposure.
[3] Kuh co-wrote A Life Course Approach to Women’s Health,[4] which explored the long-term influence of foetal and childhood experience.
Her research has shown that early life has a profound impact on adult health, and that disadvantage resulted in accelerated ageing.