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Dr Louisa Chenciner

Louisa is a public health physician with demonstrated experience in climate health, syndemics, and social protection. Last year, she was awarded an NIHR funded academic clinical fellowship in public health medicine. Louisa’s work spans academia and real-world public health, with a commitment to addressing the intersections between climate change, sustainability and health. She is currently an honorary research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and an active member of the Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School. She also works in local government at Oxfordshire County Council, and contributes regularly to the on-call rota for health protection at the UK Health Security Agency. To date, Louisa has a range of clinical and academic experience in the UK, Sweden, India and Brazil.

Dr Sarah Briggs

Sarah Briggs is one of the CPM’s Junior Research Fellows in Medical Sciences. Her DPhil research, funded by the Medical Research Council, evaluated the use of polygenic risk scores in predicting bowel cancer risk. Sarah’s ongoing research interests include assessing the environmental impact of the genomic technologies increasingly employed to personalise healthcare. She studied medicine at the University of Oxford, and is a clinician, training in Medical Oncology in Oxford.