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29 July 2021

Sheffield researchers receive grant to help emergency Covid care in low income countries

University of Sheffield PRIEST Study team have been awarded funding to develop clinical risk-stratification tools to help prevent hospitals in low and middle income countries from becoming overwhelmed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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26 July 2021

ScHARR collaborate on a project to explore intergenerational practice and how it could be used in health and social care system to benefit children and young people

A team from The School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), has secured NIHR funding to explore intergenerational practice and how it could be used in our health and social care system to benefit children and young people.

14 July 2021

Evaluating the trade-off between benefits and risks in treatment decisions

Join us online for a monthly online masterclass by one of our health research experts based in The School of Health and Related Research

14 July 2021

ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 1 - Colin Angus - Using Twitter as an academic

In this first podcast episode, Andy Tattersall talks to ScHARR Senior Research Fellow Colin Angus about his experiences of using Twitter as a platform to communicate his research.

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Living with COVID: is now the right time for England to lift all restrictions?

Andrew Lee, Reader in Global Public Health, discusses the attendance limits at events and indoor gatherings, social distancing risks and the relationship between infection and hospitalisation.

8 July 2021 | The Conversation

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New Publications from ScHARR for June 2021

ScHARR publishes over 400 new journal papers every year across our four sections - Public Health, Health Economics and Decision Science, Design, Trials and Statistics and Health Services Research.

8 July 2021

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New report details the impact of minimum unit pricing on people who are alcohol dependent

Public Health Scotland and the University of Sheffield have published the findings from a study of the impact of minimum unit pricing on people who are dependent on alcohol and accessing treatment services.

7 July 2021

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Research Records Podcast

Professor Pam Enderby at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) has been a guest on our Research Records podcast hosted by Inspiration For Life, who run a 24 hour lecture-athon at the University of Sheffield every year for charity.

22 June 2021

Virtual Study Group: connecting to integrate QI and evaluation practice

A Virtual Study Group to discuss the key challenges in the evaluation of quality improvement

18 June 2021