Professor Sasha Shepperd
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Sasha Shepperd
BA, MSc, DPhil
Professor of Health Services Research
- Co-ordinating Editor, Cochrane Review Group
Sasha is Professor of Health Services Research and Co-coordinating editor for the international Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) Review Group.
After an undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Vermont she completed a Masters at the Harvard School of Public Health and a DPhil at University of Oxford. Her main interest is health systems research, this includes generating evidence to guide the design of health services with a focus on population ageing. Research methods include the conduct of randomised trials, systematic reviews and meta-analysis of the global evidence, and the use of large databases.
Sasha is the chief investigator of a NIHR funded multi-site randomised trial of Acute Care in the Home. Through her work in health systems research she has developed an interest in streamlining randomised trials of complex interventions, and related methodological research. She has worked for a number of years on strengthening graduate education in population health.
Recent publications
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Global evidence of gender inequity in academic health research: a living scoping review protocol.
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Tricco AC. et al, (2020), JBI Evid Synth, 18, 2181 - 2193
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The work of older people and their informal caregivers in managing an acute health event in a hospital at home or hospital inpatient setting.
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Mäkelä P. et al, (2020), Age Ageing, 49, 856 - 864
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Mobile technologies to support healthcare provider to healthcare provider communication and management of care.
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Gonçalves-Bradley DC. et al, (2020), Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 8
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Mixed methods study of clinicians' perspectives on barriers to implementation of treat to target in psoriatic arthritis.
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Dures E. et al, (2020), Ann Rheum Dis, 79, 1031 - 1036
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Identifying alternative models of healthcare service delivery to inform health system improvement: scoping review of systematic reviews.
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Jessup R. et al, (2020), BMJ Open, 10