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Five reasons weight-loss jabs alone won’t help get people back to work

Lucie Nield, Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, argues that the Government's plan to trial weight-loss injections to help unemployed people return to work doesn’t address the many core reasons why weight gain and unemployment occur in the first place.

Published by The Conversation
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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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Green Social Prescribing

Episode 32 of the Communicable Research podcast is out. This time, we went outdoors to talk about Green Social Prescribing with Dr Annette Haywood.
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Urban health, wellbeing and food supplies are all under threat: growing more food in cities could change that

A supply of fresh fruit and vegetables is crucial to a healthy nation – and to building a food system that makes us well instead of sick.

| The Conversation
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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?

Estimating the comparative effectiveness of cancer treatments using UK registry data

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.

| The Conversation