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. 

Laura currently leads the Wellcome-funded Mental Health Award TripleA – Analysis of Adversity & Anxiety, which uses causal inference approaches in longitudinal population studies from the UK and Brazil to understand the causal pathways linking childhood adversity to anxiety.