Current DPhil Students
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Samuel Allen
Sam completed his undergraduate degree in Geography and an MPhil in Population Health Sciences specialising in Infectious Diseases, both at the University of Cambridge. His current DPhil work is focussed on Lyme disease in the UK, seeking to map risk and better understand both direct and upstream drivers of these patterns. Sam’s parents are veterinarians, so he’s always had an eclectic range of pets including dogs, cats, horses and fish. His family currently includes two black Labradors (Edward and Ally) and a Treeing Walker Coonhound (Patrick).
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William Pelletiers
Before embarking on a doctorate, Will worked for the Utah Office of Legal Innovation and received his BA in Public Health at Moravian College and an MPH in Epidemiology from Yale University. His interests lie in the integration of spatial modelling with public health, specifically through investigating infectious diseases and their spatial patterns, and his DPhil project is focussed around Rift Valley Fever in East Africa. Will wants to see all 50 U.S. state capitols, and he’s been to 32 so far.
Past DPhil Students
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Dr. Sabrina Li
Sabrina is a quantitative medical geographer and Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (School of Geography). She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2022. Her research investigates the interactions between human health and the physical, social, and built environments. She utilises large spatial datasets alongside Geographic Information Systems and advanced quantitative mthods. In 2022, Sabrina was recognised by Forbes Magazine as one of 30 under 30 in Science and Healthcare for Europe.
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Dr. Anaïs Lemyre
Anaïs completed her DPhil in the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford in 2023. Her doctoral work longitudinally examined the specific context of university students across the pandemic and their experience of greenspace, social connectedness and wellbeing using novel survey data. Anaïs is now working in Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) at Analysis Group, an economic consulting firm based in North America. Anaïs's favourite activity is to go on a daily walk while listening to True Crime podcasts (5 years and counting).
Study with me
Are you passionate about unraveling the spatial dynamics of human health? In an era where understanding the geographic dimensions of disease is paramount, I’m recruiting students who are quantitatively minded to pursue doctorate degrees with me at the University of Oxford, either through the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies or the School of Geography and the Environment.
DPhil (doctorate) programmes at the University of Oxford are non-taught, meaning that your success will be largely driven by your own efforts to pursue interdisciplinary collaboration and gain expertise. Whilst my personal research tends to focus on infectious (and primarily vector-borne) diseases, I encourage students to apply who wish to continue developing their skills in statistical modelling and geographic information systems (GIS) as applied to a variety of health-related topics.
Although self-motivation is key at the University of Oxford, in addition to my supervision, doctoral students have access to world-class resources, mentorship from renowned scholars, and a vibrant academic community. If you're a prospective doctoral student passionate about GIS, spatial epidemiology, public health, or population-environment interactions as they related to human health outcomes in general, please get in touch.
Please note that applications made which list me as a supervisor and without prior communication are unlikely to lead to programme acceptance.