Katya Broomberg

Katya's NDPH Trainee Research Fellowship is supervised by Professor Aiden Doherty, Professor Jemma Hopewell, and Charilaos Zisou. Her research uses wearable accelerometer data from large-scale epidemiological cohorts to investigate how physical activity and sedentary behaviour shape cardiac structure and function and cardiovascular disease risk.

In October 2026 she will begin a DPhil continuing this work, with a focus on sedentary accumulation patterns, cardiac imaging phenotypes, and incident cardiovascular disease across multiple international cohorts. This is supported by a Medical Sciences Graduate Studentship.

Prior to her fellowship, Katya completed an MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, where her dissertation examined associations between objectively measured physical activity and cardiac remodelling in approximately 12,000 UK Biobank participants. Katya holds a BSc in Economics and Political Science from the London School of Economics, and previously worked as a Graduate Health Economist at Genomics England.