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
2024
Nature communications
2024
JAMA psychiatry
2024
BMC primary care
2024
medRxiv
2024
EClinicalMedicine
2024
medRxiv
2024
The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology
2024
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
2024
EClinicalMedicine
2024
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe