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Increase in alcohol deaths in England an ‘acute crisis’

The persistent higher rate of alcohol deaths in England since the pandemic in 2020 is an “acute crisis” requiring urgent action from government, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Sheffield and UCL.
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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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Unlocking linked real-world data presents opportunities to improve public health

The COVID-19 pandemic has surfaced the potential and risks of linked real word datasets to accelerate and produce new improvements in public health.

| LSE Impact Blog
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Urban health, wellbeing and food supplies are all under threat: growing more food in cities could change that

A supply of fresh fruit and vegetables is crucial to a healthy nation – and to building a food system that makes us well instead of sick.

| The Conversation
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Vaccination: have a third of Londoners really not had any Covid-19 jabs?

This was the eye-catching claim made in a recent story in The Times, which asserted that ‘[a] third of Londoners are completely unvaccinated’. But can this claim really be true?

Estimating the comparative effectiveness of cancer treatments using UK registry data

Estimating the comparative effectiveness of cancer treatments using UK registry data

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

| Eventbrite
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New Publications from ScHARR for December 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.