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Lauren C. Houghton, PhD, adopts a life course approach to understand the intersection of environmental and hormonal factors in breast cancer carcinogenesis, focusing primarily on exposures during puberty. She is particularly interested in the cultural aspects that impact women's reproductive lives from puberty through child-rearing to menopause. Dr. Houghton has gained experience in Cancer Epidemiology as a post-doctoral fellow with the National Cancer Institute, where she explored international variations in sex steroids and biomarkers. She has extensively worked on migrant studies in Bangladesh, the UK, and Mongolia to understand the genetic and environmental risk factors affecting females transitioning from low to high-risk geographic areas. Her fieldwork includes working with Native American menopausal women and schoolgirls in Bangladesh, and she is currently a co-investigator in the LEGACY girls study in New York City. With a background in anthropology, Dr. Houghton is focused on developing mixed-methods approaches in epidemiological studies to capture the biological and cultural mediators of health disparities.
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health • New York
Teaching and conducting research in Epidemiology.
Department of Anthropology (GSAS)