Dr Sarah Floud
Sarah Floud
BSc MSc PhD
Associate Professor
- Cancer Epidemiology Unit
Sarah Floud is a Senior Epidemiologist in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU) and Co-Principal Investigator of the Million Women Study. Since 2016 she has been responsible for work on risk factors for dementia in the Million Women Study.
Sarah’s role at CEU involves conducting epidemiological research into risk factors for dementia, cancer and heart disease. Her work has mainly focused on social risk factors such as marital status, socio-economic status, social activities and social isolation, but also other lifestyle factors such as physical activity and body mass index. She is responsible for writing the re-survey questionnaires.
Sarah is also a lecturer and module lead on the MSc in Global Health Science, where she lectures on social epidemiology and dementia epidemiology, and co-leads the module ‘Introduction to Global Health Science’.
She has a background in social science, having studied at the London School of Economics and worked in social research. She has a PhD in epidemiology from Imperial College London.
Recent publications
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Author Response: Rheumatoid arthritis and cancer risk in the Million Women Study
Other
YANG T. et al, (2024), International Journal of Epidemiology
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Response: Rheumatoid arthritis and cancer risk in the Million Women Study.
Other
Yang TO. et al, (2024), Int J Epidemiol, 53
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A comparative analysis of risk factor associations with interval and screen-detected breast cancers: A large UK prospective study.
Journal article
Barnes I. et al, (2024), Int J Cancer, 155, 979 - 987
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Methods and participant characteristics in the Cancer Risk in Vegetarians Consortium: a cross-sectional analysis across 11 prospective studies.
Journal article
Dunneram Y. et al, (2024), BMC Public Health, 24
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OP102 Depression and anxiety and the long-term risk of dementia in the prospective UK million women study
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Trisa T. et al, (2024), SSM Annual Scientific Meeting, A35.1 - A35