Maya Farr-Henderson
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Maya Farr-Henderson
DPhil Student
Maya FarrHenderson joined the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU) and the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) in October 2025 as a DPhil student in Population Health. Broadly, Maya’s research in social epidemiology seeks to understand how social, environmental, political, and economic factors shape the way disease spreads. With the CEU, Maya will utilise data from the Million Women Study and NHS Hospital Episode Statistics databases to examine the lifetime health outcomes of UK Women who are the primary carer for an adult family member (spouse, parent, or adult child) and estimate the associated costs to the NHS.
Maya is supervised by Dr. Sarah Floud, Dr. Isobel Barnes, and Dr. Jane Wolstenholme. Her research is made possible by the generous support of the Clarendon Fund.
Before arriving in Oxford, Maya worked at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, as a Behavioral Health Researcher studying the health of astronaut crews and producing knowledge on countermeasures to support future long-duration human spaceflight missions. Maya earned her BA in Sociology from William & Mary and her MPH in Global Health from Emory University while funded as a Gates Millennium Scholar.