Rachel Wade
Rachel Wade
BSc, MSc
Senior Statistician
Rachel Wade is a Senior Statistician in the Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit (MRC PHRU), hosted within the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU) at Oxford Population Health. She is working on the Mexico City Prospective Study – a blood-based prospective cohort study of 150,000 Mexican adults followed for more than 15 years.
Rachel worked for over a decade on the MRC leukaemia clinical trials and individual-participant-data meta-analyses at CTSU, before joining the Mexico team in 2015.
After graduating with a degree in mathematics from the University of Bristol, Rachel worked for a number of years as a data analyst for the NHS, producing cancer registration statistics. She joined CTSU in 2006 after graduating with an MSc in Statistics, obtained through distance learning, from the University of Sheffield.
Recent publications
Kidney function and mortality in Mexico: prospective study of 130 000 adults
Journal article
Aguilar Ramirez D. et al, (2026), Kidney Medicine
Metabolomic profile of genetic liability to type 2 diabetes among 125,000 Mexican adults: a Mendelian randomisation study
Journal article
BRAGG F. et al, (2026), Diabetes Care
Polygenic prediction of coronary heart disease among 130,000 Mexican adults.
Journal article
Liu T. et al, (2025), Eur J Prev Cardiol
Blood Pressure and Mortality in Mexico City: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
Journal article
Turner M. et al, (2025), Hypertension, 82, 1896 - 1905
Cost-effectiveness of fenofibrate versus standard care for reducing the progression of diabetic retinopathy: An economic evaluation based on data from the LENS trial.
Journal article
Scotland G. et al, (2025), Diabet Med, 42
