Sarah Gorst is a Senior Research Associate based in the Department of Health Data Science at the University of Liverpool. In 2015, she joined the global COMET (Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials) Initiative, aiming to improve the quality and relevance of health research by improving the outcomes measured. Sarah is responsible for maintaining the COMET database (http://www.comet-initiative.org/studies/search), an online repository of published and ongoing studies relating to the development and uptake of core outcome sets (COS). COMET was the winner of the inaugural MRC Open Science Impact Prize in 2022. Sarah’s research role concerns methodological projects relating to the development and uptake of COS. She has a particular interest in the process of deciding how to measure core outcomes, aiming to better support trialists in using COS in their studies.
