Professor Sasha Shepperd
Contact information
Websites
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Ethnicity and breast cancer
Funded by the Prevention and Population Research Committee at Cancer Research UK (CI Toral Gathani)
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Old Age Neuroscience and the ORCHARD portfolio
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Sasha Shepperd
BA, MSc, DPhil
Professor of Health Services Research
- Co-lead of the Applied Health Research Unit
- Oxford Population Health lead for equality, diversity and inclusion
Sasha’s research uses epidemiological methods, randomised trials and evidence synthesis to answer pressing health service/systems questions, with a focus on population ageing. Sasha was the chief investigator of a NIHR funded multi-site randomised trial of Hospital at Home vs hospital admission that was awarded the BGS Dhole-Eddlestone Memorial prize in 2023 and contributed to the evidence supporting NHS England’s virtual ward programme. Currently her research includes understanding the impact of inequalities that drive the need for social care by an older population, she is a co-investigator on CRUK funded research (led by Toral Gathani) on barriers and facilitators to the early diagnosis of breast cancer in ethnic minority women and a co-lead for the Cochrane Thematic Group: People, Health Systems and Public Health.
After an undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Vermont, Sasha completed a master's at the Harvard School of Public Health and a DPhil at the University of Oxford.
Key publications
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Assessing the complexity of interventions within systematic reviews: development, content and use of a new tool (iCAT_SR).
Lewin S. et al, (2017), BMC Med Res Methodol, 17, 76 - 76
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Variability in the use of pulse oximeters with children in Kenyan hospitals: a mixed-methods analysis
Enoch AJ. et al, (2019), PLoS Medicine
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THE OXFORD COGNITIVE COMORBIDITY AND AGEING RESEARCH DATABASE (ORCHARD):DESCRIPTION OF A LARGE ACUTE CARE RESEARCH DATABASE
Boucher E. et al, (2023), AGE AND AGEING, 52
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Providing effective and preferred care closer to home: a realist review of intermediate care.
Pearson M. et al, (2015), Health Soc Care Community, 23, 577 - 593
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Hospital-at-home versus in-patient hospital care
Shepperd S. and Iliffe S., (2000), Praxis, 89
Recent publications
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Trends and variation in the incidence of hip fracture in England before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic (2014-2024): a population-based observational study
Webster J. et al, (2025), The Lancet Regional Health. Europe
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Temporal trends in hospital-recorded pulmonary embolism in England before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic (2008–2024): a population-based observational study
Zhong X. et al, (2025), The Lancet Regional Health. Europe
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Implementation of Delirium Screening at Scale in Older Patients With Emergency Hospital Admission.
Boucher EL. et al, (2025), JAMA Intern Med
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Cancer inequalities in the United Kingdom and the data used to measure them: a scoping review.
Underwood S. et al, (2025), Lancet Reg Health Eur, 52
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Factors that influence recruitment to COVID-19 vaccine trials: a qualitative evidence synthesis.
Biesty L. et al, (2024), Trials, 25