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Health and Care Research Unit shares research with British and Italian governments

Advisory group member Etta Di Benetti shared the EQUALD project policy brief (led by Professor Liz Croot) with Italian Minister for Disabilities Dr. Alessandra Locatelli and UK Minister for Social Security and Disability Sir Stephen Timms.
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Increase in alcohol deaths in England an ‘acute crisis’

The persistent higher rate of alcohol deaths in England since the pandemic in 2020 is an “acute crisis” requiring urgent action from government, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Sheffield and UCL.
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The University of Sheffield to play key role in shaping future of health screening

A team from SCHARR has been selected as one of three institutions to form a new specialist Evidence Synthesis Group contributing to the work of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), thanks to a £15 million investment from the NIHR.
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Preventing Behaviour Change Trials from Doing Harm

Episode 36 of the Communicable Research podcast is out. This time we discuss the topic of preventing behaviour change trials from doing harm with Diana Papaioannou from the Clinical Trial Research Unit in the Division of Population Health.

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ScHARR Learn from Experts: *New* Professional Learning Programme Winter - Spring 2023

We are pleased to announce our latest programme of professional learning short courses.
Call for papers: PROMs Across the Lifespan

Call for Papers - the 7th National Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Research Conference ‘PROMs Across the Lifespan’

All researchers, health care practitioners/clinicians and PhD students involved in Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) research are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. 
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Professor Andrew Lee talks about his academic career on the Research Records podcast

Andrew Lee, Professor of Public Health in ScHARR, talks to the Research Records podcast about his academic career.
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ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research - Clinical Risk Prediction: What are we predicting and why?

This presentation by Professor Steven Goodacre will highlight the importance of using appropriate outcomes in clinical risk prediction and describe how inappropriate use of clinical risk prediction may lead to poor decision-making.

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New Publications from ScHARR for December 2022

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.