Professor Sasha Shepperd
Contact information
Research groups
Websites
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Ethnicity and breast cancer
Funded by the Prevention and Population Research Committee at Cancer Research UK (CI Toral Gathani)
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Old Age Neuroscience and the ORCHARD portfolio
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Sasha Shepperd
BA, MSc, DPhil
Professor of Health Services Research
- Co-lead of the Applied Health Research Unit
- Oxford Population Health lead for equality, diversity and inclusion
Sasha’s research uses epidemiological methods, randomised trials and evidence synthesis to answer pressing health service/systems questions, with a focus on population ageing. Sasha was the chief investigator of a NIHR funded multi-site randomised trial of Hospital at Home vs hospital admission that was awarded the BGS Dhole-Eddlestone Memorial prize in 2023 and contributed to the evidence supporting NHS England’s virtual ward programme. Currently her research includes understanding the impact of inequalities that drive the need for social care by an older population, she is a co-investigator on CRUK funded research (led by Toral Gathani) on barriers and facilitators to the early diagnosis of breast cancer in ethnic minority women and a co-lead for the Cochrane Thematic Group: People, Health Systems and Public Health.
After an undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Vermont, Sasha completed a master's at the Harvard School of Public Health and a DPhil at the University of Oxford.
Recent publications
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Temporal trends in hospital-recorded pulmonary embolism in England before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic (2008-2024): a population-based observational study.
Journal article
Zhong X. et al, (2025), Lancet Reg Health Eur, 58
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Trends and variation in the incidence of hip fracture in England before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic (2014-2024): a population-based observational study.
Journal article
Webster J. et al, (2025), Lancet Reg Health Eur, 57
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Implementation of Delirium Screening at Scale in Older Patients With Emergency Hospital Admission.
Journal article
Boucher EL. et al, (2025), JAMA Intern Med
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Cancer inequalities in the United Kingdom and the data used to measure them: a scoping review.
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Underwood S. et al, (2025), Lancet Reg Health Eur, 52
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Factors that influence recruitment to COVID-19 vaccine trials: a qualitative evidence synthesis.
Journal article
Biesty L. et al, (2024), Trials, 25
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Barriers to and enablers of the early diagnosis of breast cancer among women from ethnic minority backgrounds in the UK: protocol for a qualitative evidence synthesis.
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Sajjad P. et al, (2024), BMJ Open, 14
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Proactive integrated consultation-liaison psychiatry and time spent in hospital by older medical inpatients in England (The HOME Study): a multicentre, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial.
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Sharpe M. et al, (2024), Lancet Psychiatry, 11, 684 - 695
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Protocol for the Development and Analysis of the Oxford and Reading Cognitive Comorbidity, Frailty and Ageing Research Database-Electronic Patient Records (ORCHARD-EPR).
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Boucher E. et al, (2024), BMJ Open, 14
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Interventions on gender equity in the workplace: a scoping review.
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Tricco AC. et al, (2024), BMC Med, 22
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Admission avoidance hospital at home.
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Edgar K. et al, (2024), Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 3