Marwa Elbasheer

Marwa joined the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU) and UK Biobank as a postdoctoral epidemiologist in October 2024. At the CEU, she investigates the associations between ethnicity and breast cancer in a Cancer Research UK-funded project led by Associate Professor Toral Gathani. Within the UK Biobank, she is a member of the epidemiology team that conducts scientific reviews of applications to use the UK Biobank resource, as well as annual reports and other outputs from researchers currently using the resource.

Marwa joined Oxford Population Health in 2020, enrolling on the MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology, and subsequently pursued a DPhil in Population Health within the department. Her DPhil research systematically examined socioeconomic inequalities in risk of cancer incidence and mortality among middle-aged Chinese adults in China, and the role of major risk factors as potential mediators of these associations.

Before arriving in Oxford, Marwa earned a BSc (Honours) and MSc in Medical Laboratory Sciences from Alzaiem AlAzhari University, followed by a postgraduate diploma in Research Methodology and Biostatistics from the University of Medical Sciences and Technology in Sudan. She has experience working in the health sector, higher education, and non-governmental organisations in Sudan, and has conducted research on the patterns of distribution of breast cancer among the Sudanese population.