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
Social, psychological, and biological mechanisms underlying the impact of early life adversity on anxiety-related disorders: causal analysis of cohorts from the UK and Brazil
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/12/2024 to 30/11/2029
Social, psychological, and biological mechanisms underlying the impact of early life adversity on anxiety-related disorders: causal analysis of cohorts from the UK and Brazil
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/12/2024 to 30/11/2029
How do contexts cause, entrench and interrupt violence against children across the lifecourse? Comparative analyses of cohort studies in England, Brazil and Uganda.
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/11/2023 to 30/06/2025
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
Thesis supervisions
Investigating the interplay of reproductive, menstrual and adiposity factors in relation to breast cancer risk
Supervisors
Strengthening causal inference in educational inequalities in cardiovascular disease
Supervisors
A comparison of the determinants of healthy ageing: a Mendelian randomisation approach
Supervisors
Mapping associations between early life adversity and alcohol use disorder through human epidemiology and rat neurobiology
Supervisors
Causal pathways from cognitive ability to Alzheimer's disease
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
22/05/2025The use of Mendelian randomization to explore the causal consequences of childhood maltreatment
Adverse childhood experiences in firstborns and mental health risk and health-care use in siblings
The Lancet Public Health
Assessing the impact of paternal emigration on children ‘left-behind’ - a cohort analysis
Journal of Migration and Health
Life course trajectories of maternal cardiovascular disease risk factors by obstetric history
BMC Medicine
Maternal social support and child developmental outcomes: an analysis of the Born in Bradford cohort
Archives of Disease in Childhood
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Professor of Epidemiology, MRC Investigator and BHF Chair
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Professor George Davey Smith
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Dr Jon Heron
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Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Professor Abigail Fraser
Professor of Epidemiology
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Dr Amanda Hughes
Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (PHS)