Dr Sarah Floud
Sarah Floud
BSc MSc PhD
Associate Professor
- Cancer Epidemiology Unit
Sarah Floud is a Senior Epidemiologist in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU) and Co-Principal Investigator of the Million Women Study. Since 2016 she has been responsible for work on risk factors for dementia in the Million Women Study.
Sarah’s role at CEU involves conducting epidemiological research into risk factors for dementia, cancer and heart disease. Her work has mainly focused on social risk factors such as marital status, socio-economic status, social activities and social isolation, but also other lifestyle factors such as physical activity and body mass index. She is responsible for writing the re-survey questionnaires.
Sarah is also a lecturer and module lead on the MSc in Global Health Science, where she lectures on social epidemiology and dementia epidemiology, and co-leads the module ‘Introduction to Global Health Science’.
She has a background in social science, having studied at the London School of Economics and worked in social research. She has a PhD in epidemiology from Imperial College London.
Recent publications
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A comparative analysis of risk factor associations with interval and screen-detected breast cancers: A large UK prospective study
Journal article
BARNES I. et al, (2024), International Journal of Cancer
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Methods and participant characteristics in the Cancer Risk in Vegetarians Consortium: A cross-sectional analysis across 11 prospective studies
Journal article
Dunneram Y. et al, (2024), medrxive
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Rheumatoid arthritis and cancer risk in the Million Women Study
Journal article
YANG T. et al, (2024), International Journal of Epidemiology
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Multimorbidity of cardiovascular disease subtypes in a prospective cohort of 1.2 million UK women.
Journal article
Suh JW. et al, (2023), Open Heart, 10
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Alcohol consumption and cancer incidence in women: interaction with smoking, body mass index and menopausal hormone therapy.
Journal article
Floud S. et al, (2023), BMC Cancer, 23