Dr. Pablo Nepomnaschy is a professor and the director of the Maternal and Child Health Laboratory in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University (SFU). He is also an affiliate investigator in the Child & Family Research Institute at Bc Children’s Hospital Research Institute, and a funding member of the Human Evolutionary Studies Program (HESP). Nepomnaschy’s academic interests center on the effects of stress on growth, development and health throughout the human life course. He and his colleagues study these subjects using a multi-disciplinary approach that includes physiology, ecology, genetics, evolution, anthropology and epidemiology and a broad range of other complementary fields. Currently, his investigations are focused on assessing the effects that stress has on female reproduction, early pregnancy, fetal development and its postnatal consequences for child development.Nepomnaschy is particularly interested in the origin of inter-individual differences in stress physiology and its role in explaining inter-individual differences in morbidity, cognitive abilities, behavior, and energy metabolism.