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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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A year of COVID vaccines: how the UK pinned its hopes on the jab – and why those hopes are under threat

ScHARR's Andrew Lee explains why annual COVID vaccinations, particularly for the elderly and vulnerable, may become a regular feature.

| The Conversation
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ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 6

Dr Andrew Lee - Communicating public health research through the media
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Exploring how federalism has impacted Nepal’s response to COVID-19

Researchers at the University of Sheffield are investigating the challenges of decentralising the healthcare system, and how this restructuring has affected the delivery of healthcare during COVID-19.
Undertaking data-centric healthcare research: Experiences from urgent & emergency care systems

Undertaking data-centric healthcare research: Experiences from urgent & emergency care systems

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