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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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Vaccination: have a third of Londoners really not had any Covid-19 jabs?

This was the eye-catching claim made in a recent story in The Times, which asserted that ‘[a] third of Londoners are completely unvaccinated’. But can this claim really be true?

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Estimating the comparative effectiveness of cancer treatments using UK registry data

Join us online for a monthly online masterclass by one of our health research experts based in The School of Health and Related Research.

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New Publications from ScHARR for December 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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Omicron is likely to hit deprived areas the hardest – here’s why

A recurring theme of the pandemic has been how COVID’s impacts have not fallen equally across the UK population. The health and financial burden of the disease has been felt disproportionately by people living in deprived areas.

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ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 7 - Suzanne Ablard - Advanced Practitioner roles within the NHS

In this episode we're talking to Suzanne Ablard who works as a Research Associate within the Health Services Research section at ScHARR.