Dr Sally Lord is an Epidemiologist and Senior Research Fellow at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, at the University of Sydney.

Her research program aims to improve health outcomes through improving the diagnosis, classification, and monitoring of disease to guide clinical management and estimation of prognosis.

She designs and contributes to the analysis of record linkage studies of cancer outcomes, clinical studies, and evidence integration approaches to assess the clinical performance of medical tests and biomarkers, and secondary analysis of clinical trial data for epidemiological and test evaluation research.