Rate My Professor Geri McLeod

McLeod contributes significantly to the Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS), a longitudinal prospective birth cohort study in New Zealand. Her publications address key public health issues, including McLeod, G. F. H., Cleland, L., Welch, J., Spittlehouse, J. K., Fenton, A., Boden, J. M., & Horwood, L. J. (2022). Menopause status and climacteric symptoms in a birth cohort of mid-life New Zealand women. Climacteric, 25(3), 271-277; Crossin, R., Cleland, L., McLeod, G. F. H., Beautrais, A., Witt, K., & Boden, J. M. (2022). The association between alcohol use disorder and suicidal ideation in a New Zealand birth cohort. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 56(12), 1576-1586; Monk, N. J., McLeod, G. F. H., Mulder, R. T., Spittlehouse, J. K., & Boden, J. M. (2022). Expanding the system: A brief psychosocial complex systems model of internalising disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 303, 297-300; Saunders, K. R. K., Landau, S., Howard, L. M., Fisher, H. L., Arseneault, L., McLeod, G. F. H., & Oram, S. (2023). Past-year intimate partner violence perpetration among people with and without depression: An individual participant data meta-mediation analysis. Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 58, 1735-1747; Fergusson, D. M., McLeod, G. F. H., Horwood, L. J., Swain, N. R., Chapple, S., & Poulton, R. (2015). Life satisfaction and mental health problems (18 to 35 years). Psychological Medicine, 45(11), 2427-2436. Recent studies include childhood air pollution exposure related to cognitive and mental health outcomes (Hobbs et al., 2025) and caries trajectories from childhood to adulthood (Ruiz et al., 2025). Her work has been cited over 2,930 times on Google Scholar, impacting fields like epidemiology, obesity, skin cancer prevention, and menopause.