Rachel Wade

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.