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.
Recent publications
Focusing attention on physicians' climate-related duties may risk missing the bigger picture: towards a systems approach to health and climate.
Gabby Samuel, Sarah Briggs, Faranak Hardcastle, et al (2024), Journal of medical ethics, 50
72 Audit of Oxford University Hospitals Mesothelioma service
Sarah Briggs, Alguili Elsheikh, Charlotte Buckle, et al (2024), Lung Cancer, 190
Editorial on polygenic risk scores - colloquium held at the Centre for Personalised Medicine, Oxford
Padraig Dixon, Sarah Briggs, Anneke Lucassen, et al (2023), Cambridge Prisms: Precision Medicine, 1
Building climate resilient and low carbon health systems
Sarah Briggs, Sarah Briggs, Sarah Briggs, et al (2023), British Medical Journal, 383
Deciphering colorectal cancer genetics through multi-omic analysis of 100,204 cases and 154,587 controls of European and east Asian ancestries.
Ceres Fernandez-Rozadilla, Maria Timofeeva, Zhishan Chen, et al (2023), Nature genetics, 55