MissSara Sousi

Sara is an NIHR PSRC-funded PhD candidate at Imperial College London's Institute of Global Health Innovation, supervised by Prof the Lord Ara Darzi and Dr Ana Luísa Neves. Her PhD uses AI models on Electronic Health Records to study gestational diabetes, building high-risk prediction models to improve care pathways. She works directly with clinicians and midwives to keep the models clinically relevant.

Sara holds a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and an MRes in Bioinformatics with Distinction from Imperial College London. She has worked across Imperial, UCL, King's Health Partners, and NHS Trusts on genomics, wearables, and large-scale EHR datasets, including UK Biobank, CPRD, WSIC, TriNetX, and HES. Her expertise spans statistical modelling, real-world evidence generation, systematic reviews, health technology assessment, and machine learning, with 30+ publications across these themes.