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The University of Sheffield to play key role in shaping future of health screening

A team from SCHARR has been selected as one of three institutions to form a new specialist Evidence Synthesis Group contributing to the work of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), thanks to a £15 million investment from the NIHR.
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Preventing Behaviour Change Trials from Doing Harm

Episode 36 of the Communicable Research podcast is out. This time we discuss the topic of preventing behaviour change trials from doing harm with Diana Papaioannou from the Clinical Trial Research Unit in the Division of Population Health.

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How to Understand Statistics in Research

There are still places available for this online course in May, which to provide participants with an introduction to applied statistics from a beginner level. The course will be interactive and practical, based on lectures and written exercises.
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Embedding Public and Community Engagement in Decision-Making

In the first video edition of the Communicable Research Podcast, Andy Tattersall speaks to his NIHR funded Knowledge for Public Health (KNOW-PH) mobilisation colleagues.
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Professor Andrew Lee talks about his academic career on the Research Records podcast

Andrew Lee, Professor of Public Health in ScHARR, talks to the Research Records podcast about his academic career.
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ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research - Clinical Risk Prediction: What are we predicting and why?

This presentation by Professor Steven Goodacre will highlight the importance of using appropriate outcomes in clinical risk prediction and describe how inappropriate use of clinical risk prediction may lead to poor decision-making.

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New Publications from ScHARR for December 2022

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.
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Uniting experts to address infertility in The Gambia and beyond

Societal expectations of parenthood are high in The Gambia, but thousands of couples face involuntary childlessness or infertility. Our international research collaboration is improving fertility awareness, guiding policy and transforming practice.

The School of Health and Related Research library.

New Publications from ScHARR for November 2022

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.