Biosocial Birth Cohort Research: a cross-disciplinary network

Longitudinal studies follow participants throughout their lives, often including multiple generations. These studies are becoming more important in disease research and help us understand how environmental factors affect our health. So far, social scientists have not played a prominent role in the design or implementation of this type of study. 

This project will establish a network in which social scientists, geneticists and epidemiologists work together to better understand and benefit from longitudinal birth cohort studies. The input of social scientists is important to better understand the relationship between biology and society emerging from these studies. Our network of scientists will be from all disciplines, including the social sciences. The project will include longitudinal birth cohort studies in the Global North and also in the Global South, where little research has been carried out on how these studies work and how they are maintained and used.