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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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New Publications from ScHARR for May 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.
International Clinical Trials Day

Event: The changing nature of clinical research

Led by an expert panel of clinicians and researchers from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and the University of Sheffield, this live online panel discussion will look at the progress made in finding treatments and vaccines for COVID-19.
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UK community health promotion has lost its power to bring about lasting change - how can sociology help?

Professor Nick Fox and Dr Katie Powell have recently developed an approach to the study of health, power and place that focuses on the micropolitics of day-to-day interactions to understanding opportunities and constraints for health.
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University of Sheffield contribute to Royal College of Physicians report - Smoking and health 2021: A coming of age for tobacco control?

Researchers from the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) have contributed to a new report ‘Smoking and Health 2021: a coming of age for tobacco control?’ for the Royal College of Physicians.
Report launch – Refining a public health approach to modern slavery

Report launch – Refining a public health approach to modern slavery

Join us on June 2nd at 10am (UK Time) for the launch of The University of Sheffield, Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner (IASC) and Public Health England report - Refining a public health approach to modern slavery.