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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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A year of COVID vaccines: how the UK pinned its hopes on the jab – and why those hopes are under threat

ScHARR's Andrew Lee explains why annual COVID vaccinations, particularly for the elderly and vulnerable, may become a regular feature.

| The Conversation
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ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 6

Dr Andrew Lee - Communicating public health research through the media
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Exploring how federalism has impacted Nepal’s response to COVID-19

Researchers at the University of Sheffield are investigating the challenges of decentralising the healthcare system, and how this restructuring has affected the delivery of healthcare during COVID-19.
Undertaking data-centric healthcare research: Experiences from urgent & emergency care systems

Undertaking data-centric healthcare research: Experiences from urgent & emergency care systems

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 October 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.