Professor Sarah Lloyd-Fox

Sarah Lloyd-Fox leads several multi-disciplinary projects focusing on developmental trajectories of early cognitive and brain development during pregnancy, infancy and early childhood. Her research focuses on understanding how family and environmental context - i.e. contextual factors such as poverty associated challenges and enriched multigenerational family support  - shape early life. Key aspects of her work are to (i) develop community-friendly, global-context tailored neuroimaging and behavioural toolkits and to (ii) partner with families and communities to optimise family-mediated and community informed interventions that bridge the transition between pre- to post-natal life, and support child development and families and to (iii) create family-school friendly resources to better our understanding of early development.

For further details of this work please take a look at the websites for each study:

BRIGHT project (www.globalfnirs.org)
PIPKIN study (www.pipkinstudy.com)
CoCoPIP Study (www.pipkinstudy.com/covid) 

Sarah Lloyd-Fox is also a co-founder of the African Brain and Cognitive Development Network (AfriBCD). Initially founded by collaborators in South Africa, Canada and the UK (www.afribcd.org) in 2022, this network aims at bringing together researchers and stakeholders who are interested in child development, health and education in Africa, taking a lifespan approach to include research across pregnancy through infancy, childhood and adolescence into adulthood. The network is free to join, for any discipline, and at any career stage. 

The network currently represent researchers and stakeholders from Africa in Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and other international countries including Australia, Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Spain, UK, and the USA, collectively conducting research in 17 African countries. Members include academics (postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, lecturers, professors), clinicians (including practitioners in paediatrics, clinical psychology and neonatology), non-profit organisations and charities.

Sarah Lloyd-Fox is a Course Organiser on the PBS Developmental Psychology paper. She is also a Bye-Fellow at Newnham College.