Professor Evie Stergiakouli
BSc(Ioannina), MSc(Lond.), PhD(Cardiff)
Current positions
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Mental Health
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
My research focuses on using genetic epidemiology to understand the causes and consequences of mental health problems in the general population. My group investigates childhood mental health and (neuro)developmental problems, including ADHD, autism and cleft lip and/or palate and their progression across the lifespan.
We use polygenic risk scores, Mendelian randomization as well as other causally informative designs and longitudinal observational investigations to study the natural progression of mental health traits across the lifespan, factors involved in developing mental health problems at different time points and outcomes.
I currently lead an MRC research grant focused on improving mental outcomes in children born with cleft in collaboration with the Cleft Collective, one of the largest genetic studies of cleft lip/palate, and the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics in Cardiff University. Our work aims to investigate common and rare genetic factors (Copy Number Variants) implicated in mental health problems in children born with cleft.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Identifying risk factors for adverse mental health outcomes in orofacial cleft and optimising interventions to avoid these.
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2022 to 31/08/2025
Identifying risk factors for adverse mental health outcomes in orofacial cleft and optimising interventions to avoid these.
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2022 to 31/03/2025
Using genetic data to identify early determinants and causal environmental risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease
Principal Investigator
Description
There are 24 million people living with Alzheimer’s disease in the world and this number is expected to double in the next 20 years. Although there have been great advances…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
12/05/2016 to 01/10/2019
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
07/03/2025Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and other neurodevelopmental traits are associated with impact on functioning among children in the general population
JCPP Advances
Long-term physical health conditions and youth anxiety and depression
Psychological Medicine
Meta-regression of genome-wide association studies to estimate age-varying genetic effects
European Journal of Epidemiology
Predicting Syndromic Status Based on Longitudinal Data from Parental Reports of the Presence of Additional Structural and Functional Anomalies in Children Born with an Orofacial Cleft
Journal of Clinical Medicine
Testing Maternal Effects of Vitamin-D and Omega-3 levels on Offspring Neurodevelopmental Traits in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study
Psychological Medicine
Teaching
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, CREATE Level 1 (2016) and CREATE Level 2 (2019) and teach (molecular) epidemiology in postgraduate and undegraduate students. I am also involved in leading units for the MSc in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics.
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Professor Kate Tilling
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Dr Emma Anderson
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