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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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HEDS Newsletter Spring/Summer 2022

Highlights from this edition of the newsletter include: HEDS develops a new measure of health and wellbeing that includes carers, celebrating 50 years of HESG, and a new framework to identify the quality of mental health care...
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ScHARR's Communicable Research, Episode 10: Smoke Free Campuses

The latest ScHARR Communicable Research Podcast is out now.
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Dr Rebecca Palmer guests on the NIHR Be Part of Research Podcast: Finding your voice after a stroke

In this podcast, ScHARR’s Dr Rebecca Palmer talks about aphasia: a language and communication disorder usually caused by damage to the left side of the brain, most commonly after a stroke.
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Monkeypox isn’t like HIV, but gay and bisexual men are at risk of unfair stigma

Our best chance of snuffing out this outbreak quickly is through early detection to break the chains of transmission, argues Professor Andrew Lee. As we know all too well from our experience with HIV, stigma won’t help.

| Published by The Conversation
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How we remodelled Ambulance Services in England

England’s National Ambulance Service provides care for millions of people every year. However, too often patients have been left waiting hours for care.