Miss Phoebe Mead BA

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Research Associate

Contact details

Email: p.mead@bham.ac.uk

Address: Public Health Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Phoebe is a medical statistician in the Department of Applied Health Sciences’ BESTEAM Team. She has recently returned to Birmingham for the second year of her NIHR Predoc after completing LSHTM’s MSc Medical Statistics Programme.

Qualifications

BA in Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Birmingham, 2024

Biography

After graduating with a 1^st in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Birmingham, Phoebe undertook an NIHR funded statistics internship within the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Following on from this, Phoebe secured a position as a research associate on the Department of Applied Health Sciences’ Biostatistics Evidence Synthesis Test Evaluation and Prediction Modelling (BESTEAM) Team. Here she worked on a wide range of research projects focusing on topics such as chronic kidney disease, newborn bloodspot screening, and ovarian cancer and successfully applied for an NIHR Predoctoral Award. The award covered the fees for Phoebe to enrol in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s MSc Medical Statistics programme. Having recently submitted her summer MSc project on risk behaviour clustering in adolescents, Phoebe has now returned to UoB for the second year of the Predoc. She is returning to working on applied health research projects and acting as a practical assistant for a collection of statistics modules.

Teaching

MPH

MBChB

Research

Clustering of health risk behaviours in European adolescents (MSc Project)
Accuracy of blood tests for diagnosis ovarian cancer (SONATA Study)
Methods review of newborn bloodspot screening literature
Accuracy of eGFR equations (eGFR-C Study)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Lamb, EJ, Barratt, J, Brettell, EA, Cockwell, P, Dalton, RN, Deeks, JJ, Eaglestone, G, Kalra, P, Khunti, K, Loud, FC, Mead, PA, Ottridge, R, Pellatt-Higgins, T, Potter, A, Rowe, C, Scandrett, K, Sharpe, C, Shinkins, B, Sitch, AJ, Smith, A, Stevens, PE, Sutton, AJ & Taal, MW 2026, 'Test accuracy of glomerular filtration rate estimation with creatinine and cystatin C in adults with moderate chronic kidney disease: prospective cohort study', BMJ Medicine, vol. 5, no. 1, e001827. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjmed-2025-001827

Abstract

Sundar, S, Salar, A, Cummins, C, Do, V, Mohammed, P, Vernazza, J, Ofinran, O, Ratnavelu, N, Agarwal, R, Mead, P, Takwoingi, Y, Murphie, J, Jhita, N, Rati, N & Sai, V 2026, '#348 Transforming ovarian cancer diagnostic pathways (SONATA): ROMA versus CA125 in community setting for diagnosis of ovarian and uterine cancer, real-world prospective diagnostic test accuracy study: preliminary analysis of secondary outcome', International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, vol. 36, no. 2, Supplement 1, 102901, pp. 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgc.2025.102901

Sundar, S, Salar, A, Do, V, Agarwal, R, Mead, P, Monahan, M, Griffin, D, Roberts, T, Takwoingi, Y, Duke, O, Crisp, H, Ratnavelu, N, Vernazza, J, Mohammed, P, Ofinran, O, Jhita, N, Simpson, S, Rati, N, Sai, V & Cummins, C 2025, 'Transforming ovarian cancer diagnostic pathways (SONATA): ROMA versus CA125 in community setting for diagnosis of ovarian cancer. A real-world prospective diagnostic test accuracy study – preliminary results', International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, vol. 35, no. 11, Supplement 1, 102734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgc.2025.102734

Review article

Scandrett, K, Dinnes, J, Morrison, B, Coombe, A, Agarwal, R, Adu Asare, I, Mead, P, De Souza, A, Elliman, D, Lombardo, S, Marshall, J, Taylor-Phillips, S & Takwoingi, Y 2026, 'Methods and mechanisms for measuring and monitoring outcomes from newborn bloodspot screening: a scoping review', Health Technology Assessment. https://doi.org/10.3310/GJJD1717

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