Professor Sarah Darby is a British epidemiologist. In recent years, her research has concerned evaluating the beneficial effects of giving up smoking, the risk of lung cancer from residential radon and treatments for early breast cancer.
A protegeé of Richard Doll, she is one of the best known epidemiologists/biostatisticans in the UK. Darby is Professor of Medical Statistics at the University of Oxford.
She is Principal Scientist with the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, in the Clinical Trial Services Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.
She has a PhD in Medical Statistics from the Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.