Early Fetal Environment to Infancy: Setting the Stage for Lifelong Health

Dear Colleagues,

The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is publishing a Special Issue titled “Early Fetal Environment to Infancy: Setting the Stage for Lifelong Health”. For detailed information on the journal, I refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.

Maternal, infant, and child health has been on the global public health agenda for several decades. The fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) was dedicated to improving maternal health by reducing maternal mortality and ensuring universal access to reproductive health by encouraging the use of skilled birth attendants (United Nations, 2015). While maternal health is less prominent in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), it is still recognized as a priority in SDG # 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing), requiring sustained investment (United Nations, 2019). While progress has been made, we still have a long way to go all over the world. We know that there are several intersections that impact perinatal health that also require our attention. Some of these factors include racial differences, mental health, physical environmental disasters/conditions, human rights, and more broadly, access to the social determinants of health. We know that the experiences of the mother and the conditions in which she finds herself in during pregnancy will impact pregnancy outcomes and the health of her infant as they grow. In this Special Issue, we invite you to share your work with a global audience and together we can shed light on the directions we need to take to positively impact perinatal health at the global level. The keywords listed below provide some of the possible areas of interest.

Prof. Dr. Shahirose Premji
Dr. Aliyah Dosani
Guest Editors

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