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
Can care ethics help healthcare systems address their environmental harms? Findings from focus groups with members of the UK public
Gabrielle Samuel, Miranda MacFarlane, Sarah Briggs, et al (2025), Social Science & Medicine, 376
Building climate resilient and low carbon health systems
Sarah Briggs, Sarah Briggs, Sarah Briggs, et al (2023), British Medical Journal, 383
Integrating genome-wide polygenic risk scores and non-genetic risk to predict colorectal cancer diagnosis using UK Biobank data: population based cohort study
Sarah EW Briggs, Philip Law, James E East, et al (2022), BMJ, 379