Gavin Pereira is the Dean of Research in the Faculty of Health Sciences. He is an epidemiologist with an interest in multifactorial determinants of health across the life course, an environmental health researcher and biostatistician, and holds a National Health and Medical Research Council investigator grant. He holds a tenured professorship at the Curtin School of Population Health at Curtin University in Australia and previously held positions at the University of Western Australia (Australia), the Telethon Kids Institute (Australia), Yale University (USA), and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Norway). He leads large international studies to review clinical guidelines of the World Health Organization, to evaluate the effectiveness of vaccination, to investigate the influence of air pollution and climate change on children’s health, and to develop prognostic models for stillbirth and perinatal morbidity using machine learning and big data.