ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research #3 - Dr Andrew Lee - Public health in action: Pandemic response to Covid-19 - 11th September, 1pm

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About this Event

Public health in action: Pandemic response to Covid-19

Dr Andrew Lee

Abstract
Infectious diseases are an age-old threat to human populations with the power to disrupt societies and cause considerable death and disability. With a focus on the current COVID19 pandemic, we will look at the public health approaches to tackling outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics. We will reflect on some of the emerging lessons learned, explore both the short- and longer-term impacts of this pandemic for the UK, and consider how the pandemic is likely to unfold in the coming years.

Bio
Andrew is a Reader of Global Public Health in ScHARR. Following paediatric and tropical medicine training, he worked overseas running primary health care and tuberculosis control programmes in Afghanistan, as well as in disaster response (e.g. Asian tsunami disaster, 2009 post-cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe, 2013 Typhoon Haiyan). He is dual trained in general practice and public health in the UK, and previously worked for many years with Public Health England as a consultant in communicable disease control. He is currently a director of primary care and population health, and has been heavily involved in the health sector response to COVID19.

Links

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/andrew-lee

https://twitter.com/andrewleedr


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https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/fbae374ad6ed4eeea1ed792b69cc2b6c

The live session takes place in a Collaborate webinar - headphones are advisable and easy to set up. You can join with a computer, tablet or smartphone, Chrome and Firefox offer the best browser experience. You can also use a phone to handle audio while in the session by dialling +44 2033 189610 and entering the PIN: 398 583 2702.

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Interventional Studies as Service Evaluations workshop

View from INOX venue, Sheffield

The School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, are currently taking ‘Expressions of Interest (EoI)’ for the Interventional Studies as Service Evaluations workshop, taking place in Sheffield on Tuesday 4^th June 2019 from 9:30am until 4:30pm. 

The event is an opportunity for researchers and commissioners who work in the area of healthcare evaluation and/or commissioning to come together to discuss and debate what types of ‘evidence’ can be obtained from service evaluations as an alternative to research. This includes the associated benefits and negative consequences of taking these alternative approaches. 

Previous ReQoL event

Workshop highlights include taught sessions on understanding and distinguishing the differences between service evaluations and research, statistical methods for assessing effectiveness alongside non-randomised study designs (ability to randomise being a key difference associated between research and service evaluations), and methods for assessing value for money (ranging from formal economic evaluation methodologies to cost-only analyses). These taught sessions will culminate in a structured group discussion related to using service evaluations relative to research as a vehicle for assessing effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, as well as commissioners’ and researchers’ perspectives on why one approach might be chosen over the other.

The workshop is being run by Dr Steve Ariss, Dr Kate Ren, Dr Matt Franklin (University of Sheffield), Professor Gerry Richardson and Dr James Lomas (University of York).

Key information. To register your interest in attending the event, please email clahrc-heom@sheffield.ac.uk by the 10^th May 2019, with ‘EoI - Service Evaluation workshop’ in the subject line of your email. 

The Workshop programme can be found here: http://clahrc-yh.nihr.ac.uk/our-themes/health-economics-and-outcome-measurement/6-heom-events

Please forward this information to anyone you feel may be interested in ‘expressing an interest’ in attending this workshop. Places are limited and initial interest is high, so please register your interest as soon as possible before the deadline date.

Colin Angus to present at the Health Economics & Evidence Synthesis (HEES) Group Seminar Series

Colin Angus is delivering the next Health Economics & Evidence Synthesis (HEES) Group Seminar Series. His talk is on 'Modelling the impact on health, healthcare costs and health inequalities of Screening and Brief Intervention programmes'. Further details are below.

Dr Praveen Thokala to present at Vanderbilt University Medical Center Institute for Clinical and Translational Research - 'Measuring Value in Health Care'

Dr Praveen Thokala is to present at Vanderbilt University Medical Center Institute for Clinical and Translational Research - 'Measuring Value in Health Care'.