Her medical training was in the Czech Republic and she obtained her MSc in Epidemiology from the State University of New York, USA, and PhD in Epidemiology and PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UBC. She holds a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award for her research in maternal and perinatal health, and the Sick Kids Foundation and CIHR New Investigator Awards. Dr. Lisonkova is a perinatal epidemiologist working in the area of maternal, fetal, and neonatal health and health services research, and her research focuses on adverse perinatal outcomes among high-risk and vulnerable women. She has published numerous papers on this topic, most recently in high-impact medical journals including JAMA and PloS Medicine.