For those interested, here is a link to their paper https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jcpp.13255. She will also be presenting on some of the research that she is currently working on.

Speaker’s research summary

My research broadly focuses on studying the risk factors for the development of eating disorders across the life-span.

As part of my Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship I am studying whether inflammation - conceptualised as exposure to prenatal and childhood infections, high genetic risk, autoimmunity - increases a person's risk of developing eating disorders. To do this, I use large general population datasets, including both biological and environmental data, and causal inference methods.

I am also interested in studying inequalities in access to services and evaluating the effectiveness of current treatments for eating disorders using electronic medical records.