Rachel Wade
Rachel Wade
BSc, MSc
Senior Statistician
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.
Recent publications
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A Mendelian randomisation study of the effect of body mass index on 52 causes of death among 125 000 Mexican adults with admixed ancestry
Journal article
Gnatiuc Friedrichs L. et al, (2025), International Journal of Epidemiology
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Cost-effectiveness of fenofibrate versus standard care for reducing the progression of diabetic retinopathy: an economic evaluation based on data from the LENS trial
Journal article
PREISS D. et al, (2025), Diabetic Medicine
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Type 2 diabetes and cause-specific mortality in Mexico City: a Mendelian randomisation analysis
Journal article
EMBERSON J. et al, (2025), The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
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Alcohol and mortality in Mexico: prospective study of 150 000 adults.
Journal article
Trichia E. et al, (2024), Lancet Public Health, 9, e907 - e915
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Blood Pressure, eGFR, and Kidney Mortality in Mexico: A Prospective Study of 150,000 Adults
Conference paper
Zhu D., (2024)