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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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New HEDS Discussion Paper

Value-adaptive clinical trial designs for efficient delivery of research – actions, opportunities and challenges for publicly funded trials.
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Junk food advertising restrictions prevent almost 100,000 obesity cases and is expected to save the NHS £200m

A restriction on junk food advertising across the Transport for London (TfL) network in 2019, has resulted in 94,867 fewer cases of obesity, 2,857 cases of diabetes prevented or delayed, and 1,915 fewer cases of cardiovascular disease
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ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 11 - Health inequalities

To what extent are decision-makers and economic evaluations on the same page? Greg Fell talks to Seb Hinde and Dr Matt Franklin.
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The tide of the COVID pandemic is going out – but that doesn’t mean big waves still can’t catch us

Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5 are behind an increasing wave of infections in the UK. So what happens now?

| Published by The Conversation
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Minimum unit pricing and harmful drinking: Mixed findings should not override the bigger picture

ScHARR's Professor John Holmes writes for the Institute of Alcohol Studies on the topic of minimum unit pricing.

| Published by the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS)