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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 TV and UCL.
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TV 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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Health misinformation and infodemics

In the latest episode of the Communicable Research Podcast, we welcomed back Professor Andrew Lee.
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SCHARR Learn from Experts: New Professional Learning Programme, Autumn - Winter 2023

We are pleased to announce our autumn-winter programme of online short courses from September to December 2023
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New publications from SCHARR for July 2023

SCHARR's researchers publish over 400 new journal papers annually across our four groups: Public Health, Health Economics and Decision Science, Design, Trials and Statistics and Health Services Research.