 My name is Jane Harding. I'm a professor at the University of Auckland Liggins Institute and I'm a pediatrician by background. I chose to focus on newborn babies because that's the area in which I practice as a clinician, as a pediatrician because being involved with newborn babies means being involved with a family at the most critical time in the life of a family, the birth of a baby. And we know now that what happens to babies before and those first crucial moments after birth can change their lifelong health. Research is a really exciting area to be involved in because it is both an area where you're always finding out something new and importantly in our area we're looking at new ways of helping mothers and babies and families to have better outcomes not just for the baby at the time of birth but for the rest of their lives. The importance of cross-disciplinary research is hard to explain until you think about an actual project. One of our projects at the moment is looking at how we might improve blood glucose levels in newborn babies and what that might mean for their later development. And to do that we're currently working with a team that involves vision scientists to look at their vision, an educationalist to look at how they're getting on at school, a developmental psychologist who assesses how they're performing and how their behavior and thinking is working, a bioengineer who helps us understand what the changes in blood glucose are and how they relate to outcomes and pediatricians and nurses and midwives. The Liggins Institute is one of the university's two large-scale research institutes which means we're focused entirely on research. We're not teaching undergraduate students, we are involved in teaching of graduate students and postdocs and developing the next generation of researchers. It makes it a very dynamic, exciting place to work because there are lots of young people and lots of different disciplines, people who are all interested in improving lifelong health but approach it from different directions, from the direction of the lab, from blood samples, from very high-tech laboratory work, to clinical work, to translation. Young researchers be their students or postdoctoral fellows are most importantly curious I think, they want to ask questions, they want to understand, they want to think about how to help. People who are committed to asking questions and to try to answer those questions to help families are what we're all about.