Caroline Childs is an associate professor in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK. She is a registered nutritionist and an associate fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
She earned her PhD with her thesis: The effect of gender, pregnancy and diet upon tissue fatty acid composition and immune function from the Institute of Human Nutrition, University of Southampton. She then became a postdoctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Medicine from the same university.
With multiple publications and over 2000 career citations, Dr Childs’ research to date has investigated nutrients including dietary fatty acids, probiotics, and prebiotics. Experimental approaches have included assessment tissue composition, immune function, inflammatory status, immunosenescence, and the gut microbiota.
