Dr Laura Horsfall

Dr Laura Horsfall

The UCL Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Dr. Laura Horsfall's academic background is in Genetics (BSc), Health Services Research (MSc) and Molecular Epidemiology (PhD). She is currently a Senior Research Fellow at University College London (UCL) in the Institute of Health Informatics.

Dr. Horsfall has published in various clinical fields using different methodological approaches, including descriptive epidemiology, causal inference, prediction, and health economics. Her post-doctoral research focused on the role of serum antioxidants in cardiovascular and respiratory disease using birth cohorts, biobanks and electronic health care records. She now leads an extensive work programme linking large-scale datasets to understand how the changing environment impacts physical and mental health. Dr. Horsfall supervises post-graduate PhD/MSc students and teaches the MSc in Population Health at UCL.

Updated 18 March 2024