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Overview

Louise M. Howard is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with a primary focus on Medicine, Psychology, and Social Sciences. The subfields of study in which they are most active include Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Health, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's main topics of research are centered on maternal and child health, psychological development, and interpersonal violence. Key themes include:

  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences

Louise M. Howard has contributed notably to literature on perinatal mental health and the impact of mental disorders in women. Select recent publications include:

  • "Perinatal mental health: a review of progress and challenges," 2020, World Psychiatry
  • "Mental health in UK Biobank - development, implementation and results from an online questionnaire completed by 157 366 participants: a reanalysis," 2020, BJPsych Open
  • "Impact on mental health care and on mental health service users of the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods survey of UK mental health care staff," 2020, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • "The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on intimate partner violence and mental health: advancing mental health services, research, and policy," 2022, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Psychological interventions for common mental disorders in women experiencing intimate partner violence in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis," 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Kylee Trevillion
  • Claire A. Wilson
  • Roxanne Keynejad
  • Charlotte Hanlon
  • Susan Pawlby

Their work is regularly published across multiple journals, with the most frequent publication venues being:

  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • BJPsych Open
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Archives of Women's Mental Health

Best Publications

  • Effects of perinatal mental disorders on the fetus and child

    Alan Stein;Alan Stein;Rebecca M Pearson;Rebecca M Pearson;Sherryl H Goodman;Elizabeth Rapa

  • Non-psychotic mental disorders in the perinatal period

    Louise M Howard;Emma Molyneaux;Cindy-Lee Dennis;Tamsen Rochat

  • Perinatal mental health: a review of progress and challenges

    Louise M. Howard;Hind Khalifeh

  • Experiences of Domestic Violence and Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Kylee Trevillion;Siân Oram;Gene S Feder;Louise M Howard

  • Bipolar disorder, affective psychosis, and schizophrenia in pregnancy and the post-partum period

    Ian Richard Jones;Prabha S. Chandra;Paola Dazzan;Louise M. Howard

  • Evidence-based guidelines for treating depressive disorders with antidepressants: A revision of the 2000 British Association for Psychopharmacology guidelines

    IM Anderson;IN Ferrier;RC Baldwin;PJ Cowen

  • Physical, cognitive, and mental health impacts of COVID-19 after hospitalisation (PHOSP-COVID): a UK multicentre, prospective cohort study.

    Rachael A Evans;Hamish McAuley;Ewen M Harrison;Aarti Shikotra

  • Domestic Violence and Perinatal Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Louise M Howard;Sian Oram;Helen Galley;Kylee Trevillion

  • 'Diagnostic overshadowing': worse physical health care for people with mental illness.

    Simon Jones;Louise Howard;Graham Thornicroft

  • Mental health in UK Biobank – development, implementation and results from an online questionnaire completed by 157 366 participants: a reanalysis

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  • Prevalence and risk of violence and the physical mental and sexual health problems associated with human trafficking: systematic review.

    Siân Oram;Heidi Stöckl;Joanna Busza;Louise M. Howard

  • Prevalence and risk of violence and the mental, physical and sexual health problems associated with human trafficking: an updated systematic review

    L. Ottisova;S. Hemmings;L.M. Howard;C. Zimmerman

  • Violence against women and mental health.

    Sian Oram;Hind Khalifeh;Louise Michele Howard

  • Prevalence of non-suicidal self-harm and service contact in England, 2000–14: repeated cross-sectional surveys of the general population

    Sally McManus;David Gunnell;David Gunnell;Claudia Cooper;Paul E Bebbington

  • Obesity and mental disorders during pregnancy and postpartum: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Emma Molyneaux;Lucilla Poston;Sarah Ashurst-Williams;Louise M. Howard

  • Refugee, asylum seeker, immigrant women and postnatal depression: rates and risk factors

    Catherine H. Collins;Cathy Zimmerman;Louise M. Howard

  • A transformative stand-alone goal on achieving gender equality womens rights and womens empowerment: Imperatives and key components. In the context of the post-2015 development framework and sustainable development goals.

    Brooks R;Oram S;Stockl H;Busza J

  • Postpartum psychiatric disorders.

    Samantha E Meltzer-Brody;Louise M. Howard;Veerle Bergink;Simone Vigod

  • Mental Health Context of Food Insecurity: a Representative Cohort of Families With Young Children

    Maria Melchior;Avshalom Caspi;Louise M Howard;Antony P Ambler

  • Barriers and facilitators of disclosures of domestic violence by mental health service users: qualitative study

    Diana Rose;Kylee Trevillion;Anna Woodall;Craig Morgan

  • Domestic and sexual violence against patients with severe mental illness.

    H. Khalifeh;Peter Moran;R. Borschmann;K. Dean

  • Domestic violence and severe psychiatric disorders: prevalence and interventions.

    L. M. Howard;K. Trevillion;H. Khalifeh;A. Woodall

Frequent Co-Authors

Gene Feder
Gene Feder University of Bristol
Graham Thornicroft
Graham Thornicroft King's College London
Sonia Johnson
Sonia Johnson University College London
Cathy Zimmerman
Cathy Zimmerman London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Morven Leese
Morven Leese King's College London
Alan Stein
Alan Stein University of Oxford
Rohan Borschmann
Rohan Borschmann University of Melbourne
Paul Moran
Paul Moran University of Bristol
Craig A. Olsson
Craig A. Olsson Deakin University
Lucilla Poston
Lucilla Poston King's College London

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