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 and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, and 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. 

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.  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.