Susan Prescott is the Winthrop Professor in the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at University of Western Australia. She is also a Paediatric Allergist and Immunologist at the Perth Children’s Hospital and a Research Strategy Leader and the Telethon KIDS Institute. She is founding President of the multidisciplinary DOHaD Society in Australia and New Zealand (Developmental Origins of Health and Disease) and is a Director of the World Allergy Organisation, the peak global organisation on allergy, comprising of over 90 national and regional allergy and immunology societies.