Professor Kirsty Pringle is Assistant Dean Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing and a teaching/research academic in the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy and at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Kirsty completed her PhD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Adelaide before joining the University of Newcastle in 2008. She is Deputy Director of HMRI’s Mothers and Babies Research Program and leads the Placental Biology and Pregnancy Research group. Kirsty is passionate about improving outcomes for mothers and their babies, especially in Australian Aboriginal communities. Her research focusses on the role of the intrauterine, circulating and intrarenal renin angiotensin systems (RASs) in pregnancy and the developmental origins of health and disease.