Yi-Hsuan (Catherine) Ko

Yi-Hsuan (Catherine) joined Oxford Population Health in October 2025 as a DPhil student in the Clinical Trials Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), supervised by Professor Jemma Hopewell and Dr Alison Offer.

She is affiliated with Hertford College and funded by the Oxford–Taiwan Graduate Scholarship and Oxford Population Health Studentship. Her research focuses on investigating the response to statins in cardiovascular disease using multi-omics data from the Heart Protection Study.

Catherine holds an MSc in Health Data Analytics and Machine Learning from Imperial College London (2024) and a BA in Economics from National Taiwan University (2022). During her master’s studies, she investigated the causal relationship between autoimmune diseases and cardiometabolic diseases using Mendelian randomisation.

She is particularly interested in integrating genetic and molecular data to improve cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment strategies. Her work aims to bridge population genomics and clinical research to inform precision medicine.