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. 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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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