Professor Laura Howe
BSc(Sus.), MSc(Lond.), PhD(Lond.)
Current positions
Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
Laura Howe a statistical epidemiologist, whose research draws on life course and causal inference approaches to understand the development of physical and mental health across the life course, with a particular focus on social influences on health. She has experience of statistical methods for repeated measures data and methods for the integration of genetic data into epidemiological studies, and has carried out methodological research in these areas.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Walking and Re-Creation
Principal Investigator
Role
Collaborator
Description
An 'Ideas Exchange' between public health experts, a theatre historian and a comedian, this project takes a long historical and interdisciplinary view of the cultural and physical benefits of walking,…Managing organisational unit
Department of TheatreDates
05/03/2021 to 31/07/2021
Young Adult Relationships and Health
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2019 to 30/09/2022
8073 MRC IEU -A.Carter Studentship consumables - linked to Prog 1
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2018 to 30/09/2020
Modelling within-individual variation in repeated continuous exposures
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/10/2016 to 31/03/2019
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/09/2024Adverse Childhood Experiences and Excessive Recreational Screen Time Among Adolescents in the United Kingdom
Journal of Adolescent Health
A novel hypothesis-generating approach for detecting phenotypic associations using epigenetic data
Epigenomics
Demographic, socioeconomic and life-course risk factors for internalized weight stigma in adulthood
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
Ethnicity and suicide in England and Wales
Lancet Psychiatry
Evaluation and comparison of nine growth and development-based measures of pubertal timing
Communications Medicine
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
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Dr Amanda Hughes
Research Fellow
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Dr Alice Carter
Honorary Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (PHS)