Rachel Brathwaite, PhD

Dr. Braithwaite has a PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and an MSc in Applied Epidemiology from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Her PhD involved investigating the risk and protective factors for smoking among migrant and ethnic minority groups living in European locations. Prior to joining ICHAD, she was a postdoctoral research associate at King’s College London, U.K. where she worked on analyzing two adolescent cohorts from Nigeria and Nepal to externally validate a risk score designed to predict the individualized risk of depression in the late adolescent period for the ‘Identifying Depression Early in Adolescence project’. Dr. Braithwaite’s research interests include: mental health; adolescent health; prediction modeling; epidemiology; non-communicable diseases; longitudinal studies; advanced statistical techniques; risk-taking behavior; smoking; drug addiction; harm reduction; and preventative research.

Email: rachel.brathwaite@wustl.edu