Professor Jane Hirst is an academic consultant obstetrician, Chair of Global Women’s Health at Imperial College London, and Director of Women’s Health at the George Institute for Global Health. Her research focuses on the lifelong effects of pregnancy complications such as gestational diabetes and hypertension on women, the impact of climate change on women and babies, and the role of digital technologies and AI to improve women’s access to quality health care. After completing her clinical training at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia, she was awarded a Prime Minister’s Australia-Asia Endeavour Doctoral Award to complete her PhD at the University of Sydney and Hung Vuong Hospital in Vietnam. In 2013, she was awarded a Nuffield Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Oxford, to work with the INTERGROWTH-21st consortium and was part of the team that developed the GDm-Health App, now used in over half the NHS Trusts in the UK. In 2021, she was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to focus on utilising pregnancy as an opportunity to improve women’s lifelong health. She leads the SMARThealth Pregnancy 2 cluster randomised trial, recruiting in two states in India. She also leads a group exploring the role of data science in managing women with gestational diabetes, as well as a group focusing on the effects of extreme heat on pregnancy outcomes in India. Professor Hirst is a member of the UK NICE Diabetes Guideline Development group and a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.