Research in this theme encompasses a broad area covering fertilisation, implantation, embryogenesis, fetal and neonatal development and maternal-fetal interactions at basic science and clinical translational levels. Research areas range from child health population studies to the developmental biology of birth defects and include disease states of major organs and tissues affecting the child's early life and adolescence as well as gynaecological cancers.

Women's Health and Child Health are also clinical programmes in UCL Partners, which will be Europe’s leading health-research powerhouse. Women's Health is also a research theme of the UCL/University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre.