Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Resilience and Social Justice in the COVID era

A collaboration between scholars in history and social studies of science and leading DOHaD scientists, this article argues that in a world of extreme inequalities, we need a science of DOHaD that attends to how factors that influence the development of health and disease are socially patterned, shifting the focus from individual-level characteristics of the mother–child dyad in early development (independent of fathers, partners and other caregivers), to complex social processes that stratify society over the life-course.