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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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Do lateral flow tests detect omicron? Your questions answered

Just as we thought we understood COVID testing, along came omicron and raised a whole new bunch of questions. We asked Dr Andrew Lee, a reader in global public health, to answer them.

| The Conversation
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New Publications from ScHARR for November 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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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.