Rate My Professor Sophie Moore

Professor Sophie Moore is Professor of Global Women and Children's Health in the Department of Women & Children's Health, School of Life Course & Population Health Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. She joined King’s in 2016 and also holds an Honorary Associate Professor position at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on the nutritional regulation of ‘healthy’ fetal and infant growth, incorporating infant immune and brain development as key outcomes, and investigates the mechanisms through which maternal, infant, and childhood nutrition influence development and later health. Much of her current research is based at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia, addressing nutritional vulnerabilities with global implications. She has conducted fieldwork in Tanzania and collaborated on projects in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Moore leads the Global Nutrition Research Group and the OpeN-Global project, a resource for maternal and child nutrition biomarkers.

Prior to King’s College London, she was Group Leader in Maternal and Child Nutrition at MRC Human Nutrition Research in Cambridge. From 2000 to 2006 and 2012 to 2014, she worked with the MRC’s International Nutrition Group at LSHTM, leading the Early Growth and Development research theme. Between 2006 and 2012, she served as Head of Station at MRC Keneba in The Gambia. Moore was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 2020, funding her work through 2025. Her highly cited publications include “Critical windows for nutritional interventions against stunting” (Prentice et al., American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2013), “Modification of immune function through exposure to dietary aflatoxin in Gambian children” (Turner et al., Environmental Health Perspectives, 2003), “Maternal nutrition at conception modulates DNA methylation of human metastable epialleles” (Dominguez-Salas et al., Nature Communications, 2014), “The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) recommendations on adolescent, preconception, and maternal nutrition: ‘Think Nutrition First’” (Hanson et al., 2015), and “What’s normal? Oligosaccharide concentrations and profiles in milk produced by healthy women vary geographically” (McGuire et al., American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2017). In 2023, she delivered her Inaugural Lecture, “From North to South: Navigating Global Health Nutrition.” Her research has significantly influenced understanding of early-life nutrition interventions.