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2026

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D-Index
139
Citations
81414
World Ranking
1742
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2001 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1986 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Peter D. Gluckman is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their work focuses primarily in the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to several subfields including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics addressed in their research encompass Birth, Development, and Health; Gestational Diabetes Research and Management; Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum; Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development; Pregnancy and Preeclampsia Studies; Functional Brain Connectivity Studies; and Obesity, Physical Activity, and Diet.

The scientist has authored or coauthored multiple papers, notable among them are:

  • Future scenarios for the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, The Lancet
  • Brokerage at the science-policy interface: from conceptual framework to practical guidance, 2021, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Cohort profile: Singapore Preconception Study of Long-Term Maternal and Child Outcomes (S-PRESTO), 2020, European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Ethnic diversity in infant gut microbiota is apparent before the introduction of complementary diets, 2020, Gut Microbes
  • Homotopic local-global parcellation of the human cerebral cortex from resting-state functional connectivity, 2023, NeuroImage

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Peter D. Gluckman include Yap Seng Chong, Kok Hian Tan, Fabian Yap, Michael J. Meaney, and Johan G. Eriksson.

Their research has been published extensively in venues such as OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University), The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, and the International Journal of Epidemiology.

In addition to articles, they have contributed to book publications, including a title published by Elsevier BV: Epigenetics in Human Disease (2023).

Recognition of their work includes election as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2004, Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 2001, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1986, and Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Selective head cooling with mild systemic hypothermia after neonatal encephalopathy: multicentre randomised trial

    Peter D Gluckman;John S Wyatt;Denis Azzopardi;Roberta Ballard

  • Living with the past: evolution, development, and patterns of disease

    Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson

  • Developmental plasticity and human health.

    Patrick Bateson;David Barker;Timothy Clutton-Brock;Debal Deb

  • Early developmental conditioning of later health and disease: physiology or pathophysiology?

    M. A. Hanson;P. D. Gluckman

  • Early life events and their consequences for later disease: a life history and evolutionary perspective.

    Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson;Alan S. Beedle

  • Fetal origins of hyperphagia, obesity, and hypertension and postnatal amplification by hypercaloric nutrition

    Mark H. Vickers;Bernhard H. Breier;Wayne S. Cutfield;Paul L. Hofman

  • Origins of lifetime health around the time of conception: causes and consequences.

    Tom P Fleming;Adam J Watkins;Miguel A Velazquez;John C Mathers

  • Developmental Origins of Non-Communicable Disease: Implications for Research and Public Health

    Robert Barouki;Peter D. Gluckman;Philippe Grandjean;Philippe Grandjean;Mark L Hanson

  • Ten Putative Contributors to the Obesity Epidemic

    Emily J. McAllister;Nikhil V. Dhurandhar;Scott W. Keith;Louis J. Aronne

  • The developmental origins of the metabolic syndrome

    Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson

  • Epigenetic Gene Promoter Methylation at Birth Is Associated With Child’s Later Adiposity

    Keith M. Godfrey;Allan M Sheppard;Peter D. Gluckman;Karen A. Lillycrop

  • Predictive adaptive responses and human evolution

    Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson;Hamish G. Spencer

  • Epigenetic mechanisms that underpin metabolic and cardiovascular diseases

    Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson;Tatjana Buklijas;Felicia M. Low

  • Transgenerational effects of prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine on neonatal adiposity and health in later life.

    R C Painter;C Osmond;P Gluckman;M Hanson

  • Developmental origins of disease paradigm: a mechanistic and evolutionary perspective.

    Peter D Gluckman;Mark A Hanson

  • Epigenetic Mechanisms and the Mismatch Concept of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

    Keith M Godfrey;Karen A Lillycrop;Graham C Burdge;Peter D Gluckman

  • Neonatal Leptin Treatment Reverses Developmental Programming

    M. H. Vickers;P. D. Gluckman;A. H. Coveny;P. L. Hofman

  • Dramatic neuronal rescue with prolonged selective head cooling after ischemia in fetal lambs.

    A J Gunn;T R Gunn;H H de Haan;C E Williams

  • Radioimmunoassay for insulin-like growth factor-I: solutions to some potential problems and pitfalls

    B. H. Breier;B. W. Gallaher;P. D. Gluckman

  • Glucose tolerance in adults after prenatal exposure to famine

    Peter Gluckman;Catherine Pinal

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith M. Godfrey
Keith M. Godfrey University of Southampton
Mark A. Hanson
Mark A. Hanson University of Southampton
Michael J. Meaney
Michael J. Meaney McGill University
Seang-Mei Saw
Seang-Mei Saw National University of Singapore
Chris E. Williams
Chris E. Williams Bionics Institute
Bernhard H. Breier
Bernhard H. Breier Massey University
Alistair J. Gunn
Alistair J. Gunn University of Auckland
Michael S. Kramer
Michael S. Kramer McGill University
Anqi Qiu
Anqi Qiu Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jane E. Harding
Jane E. Harding University of Auckland

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