Dr Sarah Watkins
MSc, BSc
Expertise
I am an epigenetic epidemiologist interested in how the environment we live in shapes our health. My research currently focuses on how structural racism can lead to health inequities, and transgenerational effects of smoking
Current positions
Senior Research Associate in Molecular Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Biography
Publications
Recent publications
30/06/2025Overweight/Obesity and Ancestral Environmental Smoking Exposures: A Summary of Results from the ALSPAC Cohort
Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
Epigenetic Aging and Racialized, Economic, and Environmental Injustice
JAMA Network Open
Ancestry, ethnicity, and race
Trends in Molecular Medicine
A history of asthma may be associated with grandparents' exposures to stress and cigarette smoking.
Frontiers in Toxicology
Epigenetic clocks and research implications of the lack of data on whom they have been developed
Environmental Epigenetics
Thesis
Related people
Mrs Yaz Iles-Caven
Senior Research Associate in Child Health
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Emeritus Professor Jean Golding
Emeritus Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Professor George Davey Smith
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Professor Kate Northstone
Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Dr Matthew Suderman
Associate Professor in Molecular Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)