Louise Howard (psychiatrist)
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Louise Michele Howard OBE is a British psychiatrist. She is an Emeritus Professor of Women's Mental Health, King's College London.[1] Howard's research includes medication in pregnancy, violence and health and the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of perinatal mental health services. She is an Honorary Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.[2][3]
Howard is Chair of the NICE National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Guideline Development Group on Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health and a member of the International Editorial Board of the British Journal of Psychiatry.[2] In 2019 she became a Senior Investigator at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).[1]
Howard was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to women's mental health.[4]
