About Us

Dr Simon Sanderson - Principal Associate (Public Health and Epidemiology)

Simon Sanderson is seconded part-time to the Foundation from his post as public health consultant and clinical lecturer in Cambridge University’s Department of Public Health and Primary Care. He provides public health and epidemiological expertise for our projects and also teaches as part of our contribution to undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Cambridge. His special interests are patient wellbeing and the impact of co-morbidity in primary care, genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, meta-analysis, and methodological issues in the evaluation of genetic tests. 

Simon graduated in medicine (as the gold medalist student of his class) from Bristol University.  After further training in hospital medicine he studied public health medicine in Cambridge.  He became a principal in general practice, working in South East England and London until 2002, when he returned to Cambridge as Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care Genetics. Simon is member of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine.

Currently, Simon is involved in a number of projects, including a review on the evaluation and regulation of genetic tests and the needs assessment and review of services for cardiac conditions.

Selected publications

• Melzer D, Hogarth S, Liddell K, Ling T, Sanderson S, Zimmern RL.  Genetic tests for common diseases: new insights, old concerns  British Medical Journal (2008) 336:590-3
• Subramonia-Iyer S, Sanderson, Sagoo G, Higgins J, Burton H, Zimmern R, Kroese M, Brice, P, Shaw-Smith C. Array-based comparative genomic hybridisation for investigating chromosomal abnormalities in patients with learning disability: meta-analysis of diagnostic and false positive yields  Genetics in Medicine (2007) 9:74-79
• Sanderson S, Salanti G, Higgins JPT. Joint effects of NAT1, NAT2 genes and smoking on bladder carcinogenesis: a HuGE literature-based systematic review and evidence synthesis American Journal of Epidemiology (2007) 166:741-51
• Sanderson S, Tatt I, Higgins JPT. Tools for assessing quality and susceptibility to bias: a systematic review and annotated bibliography International Journal of Epidemiology (2007) Jun;36(3):666-76

Please visit PHG Foundation’s resources page for a list of our publications and other work by members of our staff.