Dr Harriet Forbes did an undergraduate degree in Human Sciences, followed by a Masters in Epidemiology at LSHTM. She was a Research Assistant at the Kings Centre for Military Health Research, exploring the mental health of military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, before joining the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2011. Her PhD looked at risk factors for zoster and postherpetic neuralgia, using UK electronic healthcare records. She went on to receive an HDR-UK Innovation Fellowship to investigate complications of herpes zoster.
She is currently working in the Beyond Cancer group, investigating the long-term health of cancer survivors, using UK electronic health data.
She is currently working in the Beyond Cancer group, investigating the long-term health of cancer survivors, using UK electronic health data.
Affiliations
Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Teaching
Harriet is a Module Organiser for Practical Epidemiology, a module on the Distance Learning Epidemiology Masters.
Research
Electronic health data; cancer; skin diseases; pregnancy; mental health.
Selected Publications
Antiseizure medication use during pregnancy and children's neurodevelopmental outcomes.
2024
Nature communications
Incidence of diabetes after SARS-CoV-2 infection in England and the implications of COVID-19 vaccination: a retrospective cohort study of 16 million people.
2024
The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology
First-trimester use of antiseizure medications and the risk of miscarriage: a population-based cohort study.
2024
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
Impact of long COVID on health-related quality-of-life: an OpenSAFELY population cohort study using patient-reported outcome measures (OpenPROMPT).
2024
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe