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Radwa El-Abasiri, MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology 2021-22
Radwa observes that many believe that they cannot make it to Oxford, as they are not “the Oxford type”. However, she encourages all to apply and see how it goes. Here she shares her career journey that helped her get into Oxford Population Health.
Ilana Levene, DPhil in Population Health
12 Nov, 2021
Ilana feels satisfied to know that her work, along with her colleagues, tries to answer questions that are really important to families and have not been robustly researched in the past.
Alastair Gray, Professor of Health Economics
Alastair says he is grateful to Oxford University for hammering two things into him: one, no discipline has all the answers, and two, try to write as clearly as possible, with minimum use of jargon.
Sarah Lewington, Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics and Director of Graduate Studies (taught-courses)
19 Nov, 2020
Sarah has been with the department for nearly three decades now. As Director of Graduate Studies, she enjoys meeting new students and believes our diversity at the workplace is 'the best thing.'
Manisha Nair, Associate Professor and MRC Career Development Fellow
Manisha enjoys working with people from different disciplines and different countries which she believes motivates her to think out of the box.
Jonathan Emberson, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology
After completing a bachelor's in mathematics and a master's in statistics, Jonathan went on to work at a clinical trials centre in Sydney, the same year the Australian city hosted the Olympics. He believes in ensuring you enjoy what you do whilst keeping an open mind about where it might lead you in the future.
Peter Chan, Early Career Research Fellow
16 Oct, 2020
When developing his DPhil project, Peter wanted to do something that was of global health significance but understudied, something unusual in the department but interesting to him. That’s when he decided his work should be on household air pollution.
Naomi Allen, Professor of Epidemiology
5 Oct, 2020
Naomi had no idea what she wanted to do when she was younger. However, she enjoyed a module on epidemiology and public health when she went to study Environmental Science at the University. Now, she is the Chief Scientist for the UK Biobank.