Currently, he holds the prestigious Career Development Fellowship of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. Dr. Mamun has a firmly established academic profile in the life epidemiology of cardiovascular risk factors including obesity, hypertension, tobacco, diabetes, depression, sleep disorder, metabolic syndrome and longitudinal methodologies. He is one of the Principal Investigators of the multi-generational Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy (MUSP) cohort that started in early 1980s. Dr Mamun is leading the third generation follow-up of the MUSP cohort focusing on the generational and developmental pathways of childhood and adolescent obesity across three generations.