Jane Hirst
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Jane Hirst is an Australian professor and an academic obstetrician at The George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London UK. She is the Clinical Chair at the George Institute for Global Health UK and the School of Public Health at Imperial College, London,[1] and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. She conducts research in preventing cardio metabolic complications in women after high-risk pregnancy conditions such as gestational diabetes and preeclampsia, and understanding the effects of climate change on the health of women and girls.[2]
- Hirst was awarded the Australian Prime Minister's Endeavour Awards in 2009[3]
- Awarded UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship[4]
- In 2013, received a Nuffield fellowship to collaborate with the Intergrowth-21st consortium and the Gdm-Health development team.[5]