Professor Sasha Shepperd
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Sasha Shepperd
BA, MSc, DPhil
Professor of Health Services Research
- Health Services Research Unit lead
- Co-ordinating Editor, Cochrane Review Group
Sasha is Professor of Health Services Research and leads the Health Services Research Unit. She is 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 master's at the Harvard School of Public Health and a DPhil at the 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-analyses 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, and is the Chair of the departmental Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Recent publications
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Prevalence and outcomes of frailty in unplanned hospital admissions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of hospital-wide and general (internal) medicine cohorts.
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Boucher EL. et al, (2023), EClinicalMedicine, 59
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Prevalence and outcomes of frailty in unplanned hospital admissions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of hospital-wide and general (internal) medicine cohorts
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PENDLEBURY S. et al, (2023), EClinicalMedicine
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Global evidence of gender equity in academic health research: a scoping review.
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Tricco AC. et al, (2023), BMJ Open, 13
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A community developed conceptual model for reducing long-term health problems in children with intellectual disability in India.
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Nair M. et al, (2023), PLOS Glob Public Health, 3
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The burden of risk factors for non-communicable disease in rural Bihar, India: A comparative study with national health surveys
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Ross S. et al, (2022), BMC Public Health