Debbie
Lawlor
Professor of Epidemiology; Head of Division of Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol; Deputy Director of MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Research
Research Interests
My research is underpinned
by my interest in understanding how biological (including genetic), social
and environmental
exposures from across the life course affect the risk of chronic disease
in adulthood and how, therefore, appropriate prevention of these conditions
can be achieved. I am interested in developing methods for improving causal
inference in epidemiology. To this end much of my recent research has used
genetic variants as instrumental
variables for determining the causal effect of non-genetic risk factors on
disease traits and clinical outcomes. I have also developed methods for and
used family based studies to examine causal mechanisms in life course epidemiology.
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