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SCHARR short courses for 2024

We are pleased to announce our programme of online short courses for 2024.
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School of Medicine and Population Health at ISPOR Europe 2024

Our colleagues are back on the road and travelling to Barcelona for this year's ISPOR Europe conference, taking place from 17-20 November. As ever, we have a packed programme of presentations from our staff and students.
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Mobilising NIHR research in public health planning and delivery

Episode 33 of the Communicable Research Podcast examines the topic of mobilising the NIHR's research portfolio to aid public health planning and delivery.

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Prescribing nature can improve happiness and reduce anxiety, new research shows

A £5.77 million cross-governmental funded project has shown that expanding access to Green Social Prescribing can promote wellbeing and improve mental health.
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Professor Cindy Cooper: Using randomised controlled trials to help people with dementia and children with phobias

In this episode of the ScHARR Communicable Research podcast, Andy Tattersall is joined by Professor Cindy Cooper to discuss the challenges of running randomised controlled trials in studies relating to children and dementia sufferers.
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ScHARR Inaugural Lecture - "Evidence-Based Medicine: My Part In Its Downfall"

Professor Andrew Booth's inaugural lecture will provide a personalised rapid tour of almost 30 years of health services research and knowledge translation, focusing on key milestones and publications along the way.

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New Publications from ScHARR for April 2023

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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ScHARR Masterclass #28: Efficient adaptive trial designs

This talk by Dr Munya Dimairo will introduce adaptive designs in randomised trials, advances in adaptive approaches, historical perspectives on their uptake in trial research, and future directions.

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New study published on Play Brick Therapy

The Child Oriented Mental Health Innovation Collaborative (COMIC) at the Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Sheffield Clinical Trials Research Unit are thrilled to announce the results of the I-SOCIALISE trial.

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