🚨 New Course Alert! 🚨 Join our online short course, Essentials of Health Protection Practice, on 12th & 13th Sept 2024, 9:30am-4:30pm (BST). Gain vital skills in infectious disease control, outbreak management, and more! Learn more: sheffield.ac.uk/smph/cpd/short… #PublicHealth

New paper published in Scientific Reports Springer Nature, investigating the impact of missing data on the estimation of BMI trajectories using observational data. rdcu.be/dPBQL

📣 Our NEW online short course in health protection is now open for bookings 👨‍🏫 Course lead Professor Andrew Lee 📅 Thursday 12th Sept, 9.30am - 4.30pm (BST) 📅 Friday 13th Sept 2024, 9.30am - 4.30pm (BST) buff.ly/3WjuRd3

Bookings are now open for our hugely popular online course in Evidence Synthesis of Qualitative Research in Europe (ESQUIRE). 👨‍🏫Led by our experts Professor Andrew Booth & Mark Clowes 📅18th - 26th September 2024 To secure your place: buff.ly/4dfb0m5

Our popular Evidence Synthesis of Qualitative Research in Europe (ESQUIRE) course is running this September. Now in its 15th year! The course is led by our experts Andrew Booth & Mark Clowes. More details via the link. sheffield.ac.uk/smph/modules/e…

We are running an online course on Essentials of Health Protection Practice - led by Andrew Lee and Prof Brian Rice. 🗓️Thursday 12th Sept, 9.30am - 4.30pm (BST) 🗓️Friday 13th Sept 2024, 9.30am - 4.30pm (BST) Find out more via the link sheffield.ac.uk/smph/cpd/short…

The latest mortality data from Scotland strongly suggests another rise in drug-related deaths in 2023 after a big fall in 2022, an increase in deaths by suicide and little change in alcohol-specific deaths.

Now with added 2023 data for Scotland and the US, here's a new version of our analysis of 'deaths of despair' in the UK, US and Canada. Things heading in a slightly better direction in the US in 2023, although from a bad, bad place. Scotland, not so much.

Patient’s perspectives of epilepsy care by specialists and generalists: qualitative evidence synthesis bjgpopen.org/content/early/…

Delighted to share on behalf of the team at SCHARR HEDS - An invitation to participate in an online survey exploring perceptions towards children's participation in PROM development: shef.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6r…

**New SARG Paper** The latest paper from our 'No/Lo Project', published in Drug&AlcoholReview 'Characteristics of consumers of alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks in Great Britain: A cross-sectional study' Parvati Perman-Howe John Holmes Jamie Brown Inge Kersbergen doi.org/10.1111/dar.13…

Our popular Evidence Synthesis of Qualitative Research in Europe (ESQUIRE) course is running this September. Now in its 15th year! The course is led by our experts Andrew Booth & Mark Clowes. More details via the link. sheffield.ac.uk/smph/modules/e…

The horrifying rise in drug-related deaths in Scotland has seen a *massive* shift in the age profile of people dying. In 2000 half of drug deaths were people under 30. In 2022 it was 10%. In 2000 8% of drug deaths were people over 45. In 2022 it was 49%.

Happy to share our exciting new project developing a PRO to measure QoL for people living with MND. Phil Powell Chris McDermott Alys Griffiths Better Outcomes in MND SCHARR MND Association SCHARR HEDS hqlo.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Good to keep on working with our alumnus Suleiman Mshelia : Understanding lived experiences and perceptions of perinatal depression in Nigeria: a qualitative evidence synthesis. Journal of Global Health Reports. 2024;8:e2024024. joghr.org/article/122278…

PROQuALS is an exciting new outcome measure that assesses subjectively the HRQoL of people living with #MND, based on how much of a problem different aspects of life are / are not for that individual at that time. Expect updates soon📣

📚Excited to share our latest publication 'Direct and Indirect Costs of Breast Cancer and Associated Implications: A Systematic Review' by Matt Franklin and Daniel Pollard 💻Check out our paper in Advances in Therapy doi.org/10.1007/s12325… #systematicreview

I'm giving a talk for Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub on the evening of the 16th September about alcohol and health. It may feature the odd graph or two. Feel free to come along if that sounds like your kind of thing. Details: aske-skeptics.org.uk/sheffield.html

Still time to book for our online course on Essentials of Health Protection Practice - led by Andrew Lee and Prof Brian Rice. 🗓️Thursday 12th Sept, 9.30am - 4.30pm (BST) 🗓️Friday 13th Sept 2024, 9.30am - 4.30pm (BST) Find out more via the link sheffield.ac.uk/smph/cpd/short…

Forgive me for signposting our latest National Institute for Health and Care Research HS&DR report! Big Thanks to my co-authors Anna Cantrell (Lead) and Duncan Chambers . Signposting services for people with health and care needs: a rapid realist review. Health Soc Care Deliv Res 2024;12(26)