Deborah A. Lawlor is a British epidemiologist and professor at the University of Bristol, where she is the deputy director of the Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit.
After her PhD, Lawlor joined the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol on a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Medical Research Council.
[4][5] Lawlor's theme also explores adverse perinatal, pregnancy and offspring cardio-metabolic outcomes, to enable stratified and effective antenatal care in both IVF and spontaneous conceptions.
She has published many papers outlining and using the technique of Mendelian randomisation[6] and is an advocate for the combining of multiple methods to allow for the strongest possible causal inference.
[9] Additionally, Lawlor was named by Thomson Reuters in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 as in the top 1% of scientists who are "the world's most influential scientific minds in her field.
[10] In 2017, Lawlor was awarded a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to social and community medicine research.