Society to cell: How child poverty gets “Under the Skin” to influence child development and lifelong health

• Childhood poverty is associated with short and long term impacts on health. • Global disasters, like the COVID-19 pandemic, increase childhood poverty rates. • The stress response, brain and immune system are particularly sensitive to poverty. • The lasting effects of poverty may be mediated by omics processes, e.g. epigenetics. • Early intervention may protect children from the harmful effects of poverty. Almost one in three children globally...