Dr. Sarah Assaad

Biography

Sarah Assaad is a Research Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London (UCL), focusing on Cognitive Ageing and Dementia Epidemiology. She leads the 'Practical Statistics in Mental Health Research' module at the MSc level, where she supervises thesis projects and provides statistical support. Her research interests lie in understanding the associations between cognitive change and socio-economic, social, and physical health factors in older age, particularly within the context of the ELSA-HCAP project. Sarah received a Cambridge Trust scholarship for her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she analyzed data from the CC75C study. She successfully completed her PhD in 2022, with research that contributed to deriving a longitudinal index of social well-being and understanding the relationship between social health and the use of health and social care services in older age. She also holds a BSc in Medical Laboratory Sciences and a Master in Public Health with an emphasis on Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Sarah has coordinated the implementation of the 10/66 dementia cohort study in Lebanon and has contributed to various peer-reviewed articles and conference presentations.

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