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claire-steves

Professor Claire Steves

Professor of Ageing and Health

Research interests

  • Ageing
  • Mental Health

Biography

Claire is a Professor of Ageing and Health and the Clinical Director of TwinsUK, King’s College London. She is also a Consultant Geriatrician at Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust.

 

Claire is interested in how each one of us ages differently and uses population studies like TwinsUK to understand what underlies this variability. She works across health boundaries, interested in both physical and mental health and the intersections between them. She established that environmental factors are particularly important in understanding trajectories of ageing. This has led to focused work on the relationship between the microbiome and conditions of ageing, including cognitive ageing, frailty and multi-morbidity. Claire also leads a high profile Wellcome Longitudinal Population Study grant to expand our ability to contribute to health sciences, by using data linkage with health, educational and environmental records, and social and environmental scientists.

 

In 2020 she brought her clinical experience to the design of the Zoe Covid study app which reached over 4 million people, and since then has led research on the impact of COVID-19 infection itself and the pandemic overall on lived experience of the participants. She also is the longitudinal population study lead on the National Core Study of Health and Wellbeing which aims to understand the health, social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic including how the pandemic has affected older populations.

 

Claire has published more than 100 research articles in high impact journals and appears regularly in the media.

    Research

    exercise class ladies lunge together csi project 780x450
    Adapting Pulmonary Rehabilitation for People Living with COPD & Frailty

    People with COPD and frailty can benefit from, yet face trouble completing pulmonary rehabilitation. BreathePlus will develop and test a new adapted approach.

    Project status: Ongoing

    London landscape
    Ageing Research at King's (ARK)

    Cross faculty consortium addressing ageing and healthy longevity.

    News

    Some people's brain function still affected by Long COVID years after infection

    UK researchers have found that people with longer-term COVID-19 symptoms including 'brain fog' showed reduced performance in tasks testing different mental...

    Stressed out man

    How much of a boost do “booster” COVID-19 jabs give?

    Scientists have found the “booster” COVID-19 vaccine programme led to a large boost in the antibodies that help protect against coronavirus. High levels of...

    Covid Vaccine on Blue

    Long COVID risk less during Omicron compared to Delta

    The Omicron variant is less likely to cause long COVID than the Delta variant, new research has found.

    Long covid

    Three types of long-COVID for people experiencing symptoms for 12 weeks or more

    New research shows at least three distinct ‘types’ of long covid for people experiencing symptoms for 12 weeks or more.

    bame-covid

    Minorities bore disproportionate mental health impact of pandemic

    Racial and ethnic minorities had higher rates of depression and anxiety than white people during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research has found.

    Graphic of healthcare workers in protective clothing

    Experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 associated with poorer mental health

    Having symptoms of COVID-19 has been associated with worse mental health and lower life satisfaction.

    mental health illustration

    ExeTera software provides deeper analytics of mass data sets from ZOE COVID Study App

    ExeTera has allows researchers to manage very large time series datasets on millions of app users to make significant scientific contributions to...

    ExeTera

    People with prior mental ill health hit harder by pandemic disruption

    People who had higher pre-pandemic levels of depression or anxiety have been more severely affected by disruption to jobs and healthcare during the pandemic,...

    depression-news

    Impact of COVID-19 infection on later anxiety and depression is small and short-lived

    Testing positive for COVID-19 has a slight association with subsequent anxiety and depression symptoms, new research has found. This association appeared to...

    Mental Health Nursing21

    Double vaccination halves risk of Long COVID

    Adults who have received a double vaccination are 49% less likely to have Long COVID should they contract a COVID-19 infection.

    A women receives a vaccine

    Features

    King's contributes to pandemic response

    Staff and students from across the King’s community are supporting efforts to combat the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

    Coronavirus CDC promo

    Why are the elderly more at risk of death from novel coronavirus?

    Dr Claire Steves, Clinical Senior Lecturer, explores the particular susceptibility of older people to the novel coronavirus?

    An older woman washes her hands in a sink

    King's contribution to coronavirus response

    King's academics and researchers are supporting ongoing research and conversation addressing the global outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

    Coronavirus promo

    Spotlight

    ZOE COVID Study app: How King's researchers slowed the spread of COVID-19

    On March 24th 2020, the ZOE COVID Symptom Study App was launched. Since then, it has more than 4 million users and is now the world’s largest ongoing study...

    COVID and RBC

      Research

      exercise class ladies lunge together csi project 780x450
      Adapting Pulmonary Rehabilitation for People Living with COPD & Frailty

      People with COPD and frailty can benefit from, yet face trouble completing pulmonary rehabilitation. BreathePlus will develop and test a new adapted approach.

      Project status: Ongoing

      London landscape
      Ageing Research at King's (ARK)

      Cross faculty consortium addressing ageing and healthy longevity.

      News

      Some people's brain function still affected by Long COVID years after infection

      UK researchers have found that people with longer-term COVID-19 symptoms including 'brain fog' showed reduced performance in tasks testing different mental...

      Stressed out man

      How much of a boost do “booster” COVID-19 jabs give?

      Scientists have found the “booster” COVID-19 vaccine programme led to a large boost in the antibodies that help protect against coronavirus. High levels of...

      Covid Vaccine on Blue

      Long COVID risk less during Omicron compared to Delta

      The Omicron variant is less likely to cause long COVID than the Delta variant, new research has found.

      Long covid

      Three types of long-COVID for people experiencing symptoms for 12 weeks or more

      New research shows at least three distinct ‘types’ of long covid for people experiencing symptoms for 12 weeks or more.

      bame-covid

      Minorities bore disproportionate mental health impact of pandemic

      Racial and ethnic minorities had higher rates of depression and anxiety than white people during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research has found.

      Graphic of healthcare workers in protective clothing

      Experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 associated with poorer mental health

      Having symptoms of COVID-19 has been associated with worse mental health and lower life satisfaction.

      mental health illustration

      ExeTera software provides deeper analytics of mass data sets from ZOE COVID Study App

      ExeTera has allows researchers to manage very large time series datasets on millions of app users to make significant scientific contributions to...

      ExeTera

      People with prior mental ill health hit harder by pandemic disruption

      People who had higher pre-pandemic levels of depression or anxiety have been more severely affected by disruption to jobs and healthcare during the pandemic,...

      depression-news

      Impact of COVID-19 infection on later anxiety and depression is small and short-lived

      Testing positive for COVID-19 has a slight association with subsequent anxiety and depression symptoms, new research has found. This association appeared to...

      Mental Health Nursing21

      Double vaccination halves risk of Long COVID

      Adults who have received a double vaccination are 49% less likely to have Long COVID should they contract a COVID-19 infection.

      A women receives a vaccine

      Features

      King's contributes to pandemic response

      Staff and students from across the King’s community are supporting efforts to combat the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

      Coronavirus CDC promo

      Why are the elderly more at risk of death from novel coronavirus?

      Dr Claire Steves, Clinical Senior Lecturer, explores the particular susceptibility of older people to the novel coronavirus?

      An older woman washes her hands in a sink

      King's contribution to coronavirus response

      King's academics and researchers are supporting ongoing research and conversation addressing the global outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

      Coronavirus promo

      Spotlight

      ZOE COVID Study app: How King's researchers slowed the spread of COVID-19

      On March 24th 2020, the ZOE COVID Symptom Study App was launched. Since then, it has more than 4 million users and is now the world’s largest ongoing study...

      COVID and RBC