Professor Sasha Shepperd
Contact information
Websites
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Health Foundation REAL Demand Unit
Research on the demand for health and social care
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Ethnicity and breast cancer
Funded by the Prevention and Population Research Committee at Cancer Research UK (CI Toral Gathani)
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. More recently, supported by Health Foundation funding, she is leading a research programme that looks at the impact of inequalities that drive the demand for social care by an older population, 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.
Recent publications
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Factors that influence recruitment to COVID-19 vaccine trials: a qualitative evidence synthesis.
Biesty L. et al, (2024), Trials, 25
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Barriers to and enablers of the early diagnosis of breast cancer among women from ethnic minority backgrounds in the UK: protocol for a qualitative evidence synthesis
SAJJAD P. et al, (2024), BMJ Open
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Proactive integrated consultation-liaison psychiatry and time spent in hospital by older medical inpatients in England (The HOME Study): a multicentre, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial.
Sharpe M. et al, (2024), Lancet Psychiatry, 11, 684 - 695
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Social and health conditions that drive the need, demand, utilisation and expenditure on social care in the United Kingdom: a protocol for a systematic review
Amies-Cull B. et al, (2024)
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Protocol for the Development and Analysis of the Oxford and Reading Cognitive Comorbidity, Frailty and Ageing Research Database - Electronic Patient Records (ORCHARD-EPR)
PENDLEBURY S., (2024), BMJOpen