Dr Evridiki Patelarou has an educational background in medicine (University of Crete) and nursing (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens). She holds a master’s in public health and a PhD in Epidemiology. Her research career began at the Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine- University of Crete, where she was a researcher in a Mother–Child prospective study, “The RHEA” study. Her PhD examined the effect of environmental pollutants on pregnancy outcomes. Since then, her research has mainly focused on the evaluation of environmental exposures in the prenatal period and in early childhood and how they correlate with the development of the fetus and early-life diseases. Evridiki has a demonstrated record of accomplished and productive research projects that have been of high international relevance. Evridiki is the Editor in Chief of the "Population Medicine" journal and a member of the Editorial Board of several scientific journals (including the World Journal of Meta-Analysis, European Journal of Midwifery, Tobacco Induced Diseases, Journal of Respiratory Medicine and Lung Disease, etc.). She also serves as a regular reviewer for more than 20 peer-reviewed journals, including the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, the Journal of Asthma, the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, the Journal of Pediatric Biochemistry and the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.