Sarah Briggs

Sarah is an NIHR funded Clinical Lecturer in the CELS group at the Centre for Human Genetics, and a Research Fellow in Environmental Change at Reuben College. She was a junior research fellow at the Centre for Personalised Medicine from 2022-2025. She is an Honorary Specialty Registrar in Medical Oncology at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Sarah's research focuses on sustainable healthcare, and climate and health. 

Sarah studied Medicine at New College, Oxford, and subsequently worked as an Academic Foundation Doctor at King's College Hospital, London. She returned to Oxford as an Academic Clinical Fellow in Medical Oncology, where she worked with Professor Ian Tomlinson on studies of POLE and POLD1 genes in familial and sporadic cancers. She subsequently completed her MRC-funded DPhil under the supervision of Prof Tomlinson and Prof Sarah Wordsworth, developing risk prediction scores for bowel cancer using the UK Biobank dataset.

During her DPhil Sarah became increasingly concerned by the impact of global heating on health, and of the contribution of healthcare to environmental damage. Her lectureship research explores a number of issues in this area. She is particularly interested in public and patient views around the relationship between climate and health and sustainable healthcare; addressing climate challenges through health policy; and in efforts to reduce the environmental impact of cancer care and research.