Heather Boyd
Epidemiologist
Denmark’s State Serum Institute
Biography
Heather Boyd leads a research program at the intersection of pregnancy complications epidemiology and cardiovascular and renal disease. Her work focuses primarily on preeclampsia, pregnancy loss, and preterm delivery, exploring their long-term health consequences. She supervises a diverse research team, including MPH students, PhD candidates, postdocs, medical students, and statisticians, working across register-based, laboratory, and genetic epidemiology studies.
She is the principal investigator of multiple studies, including PEACH, which aims to classify preeclampsia subtypes and assess long-term risks; EPOCH, which identifies biomarkers predicting cardiovascular disease in women post-preeclampsia; and P5RP, applying AI to predict early cardiovascular and renal dysfunction. Additionally, she contributes to the Copenhagen Baby Heart study, investigating how pregnancy complications affect newborn cardiac development.
