Claire Wilson is an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Her clinical work and research focusses on the intergenerational transmission of risk for mental health and disease and opportunities for intervention to prevent adverse developmental trajectories. Claire’s areas of focus include the preconception and perinatal periods and she uses a range of methodologies to translate her work from the level of the bench or the database, to the bedside, to policy makers and to the public.

She is particularly interested in how parental multimorbid physical and mental ill health and substance misuse come together in the preconception and perinatal periods to shape offspring outcomes across generations.

She is also a keen educator and the academic secretary for the Women and Mental Health Special Interest Group of the UK’s Royal College of Psychiatrists.