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. The aim of the Global Population Studies Group is to support and build the local capacity required to conduct epidemiological studies in low-resourced settings. Such studies generate the reliable epidemiological evidence from diverse populations required to inform national and global health strategies for cost-effective control of non-communicable diseases. Over the past 20 years, the group has developed several international collaborations and is the Oxford-based lead for studies conducted in Russia, Cuba and India, involving 1.25 million participants.
Sarah is also Scientific Director for the MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology and Director of (Taught) Graduate Studies.
In 2016, Sarah was elected as a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College.
Recent publications
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The burden of risk factors for non-communicable disease in rural Bihar, India: A comparative study with national health surveys
Journal article
Ross S. et al, (2022), BMC Public Health
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Predictive value of circulating NMR metabolic biomarkers for type 2 diabetes risk in the UK Biobank study.
Journal article
Bragg F. et al, (2022), BMC Med, 20
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Unequal impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on excess deaths, life expectancy, and premature mortality across Spanish regions in 2020 and 2021
Preprint
Islam N. et al, (2021)
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Effects of covid-19 pandemic on life expectancy and premature mortality in 2020: time series analysis in 37 countries.
Journal article
Islam N. et al, (2021), BMJ, 375
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Random plasma glucose levels and cause-specific mortality among Chinese adults without known diabetes: an 11-year prospective study of 450,000 people.
Journal article
Vermunt J. et al, (2021), BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care, 9