A/Prof Leigh Tooth is a Principal Research Fellow at the School of Public Health, University of Queensland. Her research focus is on women's health, in particular on women carers, health inequalities and the socio-economic determinants of health, quality of life and comorbidity. A/Prof Tooth is currently Deputy Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH) and Chair of the Publications, Substudies and Analyses Committee of the ALSWH.