
Dr Sarah Watkins
MSc, BSc
Expertise
I am an epigenetic epidemiologist interested in how the environment we live in shapes our health. My research currently focuses on how structural racism can lead to health inequities, and transgenerational effects of smoking
Current positions
Senior Research Associate in Molecular Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Biography
I am an epigenetic epidemiologist interested in how the environment we live in shapes our health. My research currently focuses on how structural racism can lead to health inequities, and transgenerational effects of smoking.
Publications
Recent publications
01/07/2024Epigenetic Aging and Racialized, Economic, and Environmental Injustice
JAMA Network Open
Ancestry, ethnicity, and race
Trends in Molecular Medicine
A history of asthma may be associated with grandparents' exposures to stress and cigarette smoking.
Frontiers in Toxicology
Epigenetic clocks and research implications of the lack of data on whom they have been developed
Environmental Epigenetics
Fathers’ preconception smoking and offspring DNA methylation
Clinical Epigenetics