Professor Sarah Lewington
Research groups
- Accurately estimating the burden of vascular disease using electronic health records
- Adiposity phenotypes and non-communicable diseases in diverse populations
- Adiposity, body fat distribution and risk of chronic disease in Asian and European populations
- Adiposity, COVID-19 and other infections in UK Biobank
- An analysis of multimorbidities associated with schistosomiasis infections in sub-Saharan Africa
- Analysing big data from electronic health records to understand the determinants of cardiovascular disease
- Deep phenotyping of vascular events in large-scale epidemiological studies using electronic health records
- Understanding and modelling the geographical variation in relative risks for smoking and other major risk factors for burden of disease analyses
Colleges
Websites
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MRC Population Health Research Unit
Programme Leader
Sarah Lewington
BSc, MSc, DPhil
Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Director of Graduate Studies (Taught courses)
- Leader, Global Population Studies Group
- Research Fellow, Green Templeton College
Sarah Lewington is an epidemiologist and statistician. She graduated in Mathematics and Statistics from Leicester University in 1988 and spent 5 years working as a medical statistician in the pharmaceutical industry before returning to university to study for an MSc in Applied Statistics at Southampton University. She came to Oxford University to co-ordinate the Prospective Studies Collaboration in 1995 and gained her DPhil in Epidemiology in 1999.
Sarah's main research interest is in major risk factors for premature adult mortality (particularly tobacco, alcohol, blood pressure and obesity) in low- and middle- income countries. She is the Oxford-based lead for studies conducted in Russia, Cuba and India, and leads a team of epidemiologists, statisticians and statistical programmers that form the CTSU’s Diverse Population Studies Group.
Sarah is also Scientific Director for the MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology, with responsibility for the planning, development, delivery and management of all aspects of the MSc degree course.
In 2016, Sarah was elected as a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College.
Recent publications
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Development and internal validation of a risk score to detect asymptomatic carotid stenosis
Journal article
Poorthuis M. et al, (2020), European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
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Alcohol consumption and cause-specific mortality in Cuba: prospective study of 120 623 adults
Journal article
Rojas NA. et al, (2020), EClinicalMedicine
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Conventional and Genetic Evidence on the Association between Adiposity and CKD.
Journal article
Zhu P. et al, (2020), J Am Soc Nephrol
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Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.
Journal article
GBD 2019 Viewpoint Collaborators None., (2020), Lancet, 396, 1135 - 1159
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Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.
Journal article
GBD 2019 Diseases and Injuries Collaborators None., (2020), Lancet, 396, 1204 - 1222