Sarah Assaad is a Lecturer in Epidemiology and Statistics at the Division of Psychiatry at UCL. She is also a Research Fellow in Cognitive Ageing and Dementia Epidemiology at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL. She received the Cambridge Trust scholarship to pursue her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, UK (2018–2022), analysing data from the CC75C study. She won the Emerging Scholar Awards at the Ageing and Social Change Conferences (2019 and 2021) and successfully defended her thesis in May 2022. She also holds a BSc in Medical Laboratory Sciences (2013) and a Master’s in Public Health with an emphasis on Epidemiology and Biostatistics (2015) from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Her research focuses on understanding the association between change in cognition and various socio-economic, social, and physical health factors in older age as part of the ELSA-HCAP project.
