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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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ScHARR Masterclass #23: Dr Steven Ariss - Proactive and Reactive Approaches to Reducing Risk

This mini-masterclass will present a project funded by The Health Foundation and coordinated by the Q Community’s Evaluation Special Interest Group (SIG) to bring together the worlds of quality improvement (QI) and evaluation.

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ScHARR's Communicable Research, Episode 14: Colin Angus - Effective research communications with data visualisation

In this latest episode of the ScHARR Communicable Research podcast, Andy Tattersall is joined by Colin Angus, a senior research fellow in the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group.

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Monkeypox case numbers are falling, but that doesn’t mean it’s going away anytime soon

Andrew Lee, Professor of Public Health, argues the importance of continuing to use all the public health measures that have been deployed against monkeypox, from vaccinations to changes in behaviour, even as case numbers begin to fall.

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ScHARR's Communicable Research, Episode 13: Dr Chris Blackmore - Delivering public engagement activities

The latest ScHARR Communicable Research Podcast is online with Andy Tattersall talking to Dr Chris Blackmore on the topic of delivering public engagement activities ahead of his Festival of the Mind event, "The Biophilic Garden".
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UK’s COVID alert level downgraded – the move makes sense for now but things can always change

The COVID alert level for the UK was recently downgraded by the government from 3 to 2, based on advice ministers received from the four UK chief medical officers, the NHS England national medical director and the UK Health Security Agency.

| Published by The Conversation