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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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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.

| 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.
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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.
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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.