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Miss Harriet Forbes

Assistant Professor

United Kingdom

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.

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

Early, medium and long-term mental health in cancer survivors compared with cancer-free comparators: matched cohort study using linked UK electronic health records.
FORBES, H; CARREIRA, H; Funston, G; ANDRESEN, K; Bhatia, U; STRONGMAN, H; Abrol, E; Bowen, L; Giles, C; BHASKARAN, K;
2024
EClinicalMedicine
Patterns of antidepressant prescribing in and around pregnancy: a descriptive analysis in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink
Martin, F; Sharp, G; Easey, K; Madley-Dowd, P; Bowen, L; Nimmo-Smith, V; Sadik, A; Richardson, J; Rai, D; FORBES, H;
2024
medRxiv
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.
Taylor, K; Eastwood, S; Walker, V; Cezard, G; Knight, R; Al Arab, M; Wei, Y; Horne, EM F; Teece, L; FORBES, H; Walker, A; Fisher, L; Massey, J; Hopcroft, LE M; Palmer, T; Cuitun Coronado, J; Ip, S; Davy, S; Dillingham, I; Morton, C; Greaves, F; Macleod, J; GOLDACRE, B; Wood, A; Chaturvedi, N; ... OpenSAFELY collaborative,
2024
The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology
First-trimester use of antiseizure medications and the risk of miscarriage: a population-based cohort study.
FORBES, H; Madley-Dowd, P; Ahlqvist, V; Campbell, J; Davies, NM; Liebling, R; Lyall, K; Newschaffer, C; Rast, J; Tomson, T; Zhong, C; Magnusson, C; Rai, D; Lee, BK;
2024
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
Clinical coding of long COVID in primary care 2020-2023 in a cohort of 19 million adults: an OpenSAFELY analysis.
Henderson, AD; Butler-Cole, BF; Tazare, J; TOMLINSON, LA; MARKS, M; JIT, M; BRIGGS, A; Lin, L-Y; CARLILE, O; Bates, C; Parry, J; Bacon, SC; Dillingham, I; Dennison, WA; COSTELLO, RE; Wei, Y; Walker, AJ; Hulme, W; GOLDACRE, B; Mehrkar, A; MacKenna, B; OpenSAFELY Collaborative,; HERRETT, E; Eggo, RM;
2024
EClinicalMedicine
Impact of long COVID on health-related quality-of-life: an OpenSAFELY population cohort study using patient-reported outcome measures (OpenPROMPT).
CARLILE, O; BRIGGS, A; Henderson, AD; Butler-Cole, BF C; Tazare, J; TOMLINSON, LA; MARKS, M; JIT, M; Lin, L-Y; Bates, C; Parry, J; Bacon, SC J; Dillingham, I; Dennison, WA; COSTELLO, RE; Walker, AJ; Hulme, W; GOLDACRE, B; Mehrkar, A; MacKenna, B; OpenSAFELY Collaborative,; HERRETT, E; EGGO, RM;
2024
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
Impact of vaccination on the association of COVID-19 with cardiovascular diseases: An OpenSAFELY cohort study.
Cezard, GI; Denholm, RE; Knight, R; Wei, Y; Teece, L; Toms, R; FORBES, HJ; Walker, AJ; Fisher, L; Massey, J; Hopcroft, LE M; Horne, EM F; Taylor, K; Palmer, T; Arab, MA; Cuitun Coronado, JI; Ip, SH Y; Davy, S; Dillingham, I; Bacon, S; Mehrkar, A; Morton, CE; Greaves, F; Hyams, C; Davey Smith, G; ... Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing and Data and Con,
2024
Nature communications
Risk of fractures in half a million survivors of 20 cancers: a population-based matched cohort study using linked English electronic health records.
Buzasi, E; CARREIRA, H; Funston, G; MANSFIELD, KE; FORBES, H; STRONGMAN, H; BHASKARAN, K;
2024
The lancet. Healthy longevity
Psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy: population co-occurrence, genetic correlations and causal effects.
Ahlqvist, VH; Dardani, C; Madley-Dowd, P; FORBES, H; Rast, J; Zhong, C; Gardner, RM; Dalman, C; Lyall, K; Newschaffer, C; Tomson, T; Lundberg, M; Berglind, D; Davies, NM; Lee, BK; Magnusson, C; Rai, D;
2024
General psychiatry
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