Sarah Underwood
CDT student
Sarah received her MEng in Bioengineering from Imperial College London in 2021 and her MPhil in Population Health Science from the University of Cambridge in 2022.
For her MPhil thesis, she investigated incidence rates of common cancers in sexual minority groups using UK Biobank data. Sarah then joined the Applied Health Research Unit at the University of Oxford in 2023 and worked on a large-scale scoping review of the literature surrounding UK cancer inequalities. As a DPhil student in the CDT, she intends to continue working on big data approaches to identifying and quantifying healthcare inequalities.
Outside of academia, Sarah is a New York Times bestselling author as well as a keen reader, baker, and badminton player.