Dr. Geraldine McLeod has a PhD in Public Health and has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS) since 2012. The CHDS is a study of a longitudinal birth cohort of 1265 babies born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1977. Her diverse research interests include: sunburn prevention, the causes and consequences of obesity, women’s reproductive health, marketing, geo-spatial determinants of health and of course research methods.