Professor Louise Howard has been awarded an OBE
Congratulations to Professor Louise Howard, who has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours 2023 for services to women's mental health.
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Louise Howard, Professor Emerita in Women’s Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London, has been awarded an OBE for services to women's mental health.
Professor Howard’s research focuses on women’s mental health and gendered determinants of mental health. Her research programmes aim to improve mental health service policy and practice for women, including a focus on perinatal mental health and the relationship between violence and mental health. Prof Howard is a member of ARC South London’s maternity and perinatal mental health theme.
She led research informing King’s College London’s REF 2021 Impact Case Study ‘The transformation of perinatal mental health care’. This research informed the updating of NICE guidelines on how to identify and treat perinatal mental illness, developed new evidence-based care pathways and was the basis of the specialist training of thousands of clinicians internationally, including via the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Health Education England.
Her work also informed pregnancy planning tools commissioned by NHS England and Public Health England, available via the Tommy Baby’s Charity website, accessed by thousands of women.
I am delighted to have been acknowledged for our work as this OBE is recognition of the work of our whole team, and the inspiring contributions of people with lived experience of mental ill-health, gender inequalities and violence. I am particularly proud to have mentored many junior researchers working in these areas internationally, and who now lead research programmes themselves.
