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Professor of Health Economics & Decision Modelling. SCHARR, University of Sheffield #healtheconomics www.sheffield.ac.uk/smph/people/pop… uk.linkedin.com/in/alan-brennan-144…

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Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) @lhgp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Our July newsletter is out. This month, we're highlighting key developments on the #CommercialDeterminantsOfHealth – the ways businesses influence our health. mailchi.mp/updates.bath...
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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Great conference this week Learned a lot an made excellent contacts
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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Our article "Ten Recommendations for Modelling Cost Effectiveness of Screening: Perspectives of an International Stakeholder Group" has been published online and is available to download and share. You can find it by this link or the link below (rdcu.be/e53Qg)
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Ten Recommendations for Modelling Cost Effectiveness of Screening: Perspectives of an International Stakeholder Group
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healtheconall @healtheconall.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
10TH UK PROMS CONFERENCE - REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN! Join us in Sheffield on 23 June 2026 #healtheconomics
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10TH UK PROMS CONFERENCE - REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN! Join us in Sheffield on 23 June 2026
From: DPH Section Operations Support Subject: 10TH UK PROMS CONFERENCE - REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN! Join us in Sheffield on 23 June 2026 We're delighted to share that registration is now open for the 10th UK Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Research Conference, taking place 23 June 2026 at The Edge in Sheffield, UK. [...]
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Policy Research Unit in Addictions @nihr-pruaddictions.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Our new video introduces the Policy Research Unit in Addictions, showing how our research helps inform policy and tackle the challenges of addiction and addictive products. Watch it on Youtube and subscribe for more on our latest research youtu.be/Qwp4VrnFfnk
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Introducing the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Addictions: Research That Shapes Policy
YouTube video by Policy Research Unit (PRU) in Addictions
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Lauren Forrest @laurenforrest.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
1/x My NIH grant that would collect data to help *prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors* among LGBTQ+ people was terminated today, along with many other LGBTQ+ focused grants. These terminations make no sense scientifically. Here's why:
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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
1/2 The latest issue of #ValueinHealth includes an economic evaluation of a classroom management intervention which aims to prevent behaviour problems & improve socio-emotional skills in kids aged 3-8. #HealthEconomics #education #pediatrics #mentalhealth 👉 tinyurl.com/yc734ckx
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Estimating the Lifetime Costs and Benefits of the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Intervention Using Data From 30 Months Follow-Up of the Supporting Teachers and childRen in Schools Tria...
The Incredible Years Teacher® Classroom Management (IY-TCM) intervention is associated with short-term improvements in mental health difficulties in young people. The aim was to estimate the long-term...
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Natalia Kunst @nataliakunst.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It was a great delight to discuss CHEERS reporting guideline and its extensions CHEERS-VOI and CHEERS-AI together with Jamie Elvidge (@jelvg.bsky.social) and Michael Drummond. If you could not join our webinar, here is the recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0b1...
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NICE webinar | Extensions to CHEERS 2022: Recent Additions and Future Opportunities
YouTube video by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Interested in oncology and health technology assessment? The March 2025 issue also includes this paper, which concludes: "Decision making at NICE on cancer technologies is becoming more reliant on immature survival data". 👉https://www.valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S1098-3015(24)06791-3/fulltext
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Prevalence of Immature Survival Data for Anticancer Drugs Presented to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Between 2018 and 2022
Between 2015 and 2017, 41% of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) cancer single-technology appraisal (STA) decisions relied upon immature survival data. This occurs when clinical ...
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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The March 2025 issue of Value in Health is out: tinyurl.com/VIH-March-2025 This issue includes a special section on "Health Economics and Outcomes Research in Mental Health", with 8 new papers. #mentalhealth #healtheconomics
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Current Issue Table of Contents: Value in Health
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IMS Epidemiology, University of Cambridge @imsepidemiology.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
For International Women's Day we share the voices of the women we work with, amplifying the need to dismantle stereotypes and discrimination. Meet Dr @julia-mueller-phd.bsky.social, Senior Research Associate, @mrcepid.bsky.social #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction @ims-mrl.bsky.social
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Matt Field @fieldmatt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
THREAD: As you may know, Nick Heather passed away last month. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_He.... His funeral is later today, and I thought I would summarize some of his contributions to the addictions field. This isn’t an obituary, or an exhaustive list of career highlights (1/n)
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Nick Heather - Wikipedia
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Wendy @wendyhendy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New paper alert from the brilliant Dr Raymond Henderson and his Co-authors from the ISPOR Open Source Models Special Interest Group #healtheconomics #Rprogramming #HEOR #opensource #ISPOR
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Mapping the Landscape of Open Source Health Economic Models: A Systematic Database Review and Analysis: An ISPOR Special Interest Group Report
Health economic models are crucial for health technology assessment to evaluate the value of medical interventions. Open source models (OSMs), where s…
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healtheconall @healtheconall.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Vacancy: Research Associate in Normative Social Preferences, SCHARR, University of Sheffield, UK #healtheconomics
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Vacancy: Research Associate in Normative Social Preferences, SCHARR, University of Sheffield, UK
From: DPH Section Operations Support Vacancy: Research Associate in Normative Social Preferences, SCHARR, University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield is advertising for a Research Associate position in Normative Social Preferences, for the…
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healtheconall @healtheconall.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Paper of interest: Women in UK Academic Health Economics: an evaluation of progress since the 1970s #healtheconomics
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Paper of interest: Women in UK Academic Health Economics: an evaluation of progress since the 1970s
From: Joanna Coast Subject: Paper of interest: Women in UK Academic Health Economics: an evaluation of progress since the 1970s Dear all, This paper has just been published in SSM, and I think may be of general interest to those in the discipline - all…
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Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) @lhgp.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Local Health Global Profits (LHGP) 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 👉 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝗻𝗼𝘄: eepurl.com/i5EhBA Regular updates on progress, research papers, reviews as well as articles, opinion pieces, webinars, panel discussions, and events. Please 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 with colleagues and peers.
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Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) @lhgp.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Free Webinar | 27 Feb 2025 Discover key updates to the National Planning Policy Framework and how councils can implement them effectively. Hosted by @lhgp.bsky.social l & the Department of Health and Social Care #PublicHealth #PLanning Find out more➡️ www.adph.org.uk/events/natio...
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Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Obviously huge props to my fabulous colleague Luke Wilson for leading this work, and to all of our amazing collaborators, @alan-brennan.bsky.social, @drduncgillespie.bsky.social, Niamh Shortt, Helena Tunstall, Roberto Valiente and Jamie Pearce.
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Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We've got a cool new paper out today in Tobacco Control looking at how tobacco prices in smaller retailers change following tax rises and how these changes differ by price and deprivation across the UK. tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl...
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Quantile regression of tobacco tax pass-through in the UK 2017–2021: how have manufacturers passed through tax changes for different tobacco products in small retailers? Analysis at the national level...
Background The effectiveness of tax increases in reducing tobacco consumption relies on the tobacco retailers and producers passing on increases to consumers (tax pass-through). Previous UK research o...
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
opportunity costs associated with NICE recommendations. Defo the most important h economics paper you will read today, maybe this week, maybe the year so far This is where the primary care budget gets spent A www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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SARG - SCHARR @sarg-scharr.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
We're delighted to have launched a revamped website today where you can find out about our research, publications, latest news, and personal insights from team members on the new SARG Blog sarg-sheffield.ac.uk
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Home - Sheffield Addictions Research Group
The Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG) is based in the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield. Our innovative research, spanning from modelling the eff...
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The University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We’ve been ranked 27th globally out of 1,751 institutions in the 2025 QS World University Sustainability Rankings, as well as 10th in the UK! The rankings assess universities’ impact on the world’s greatest Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues. 👉 www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/univers...
A view of Weston Park pond with the Arts Tower in the background
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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Charlotte is fantastic to work with and this job doing agent based modelling of food and food insecurity will be a great piece of work
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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
@amyahern.bsky.social Thank you for a brilliant day with the team thinking through details of the design of weight maintenance programmes and their potential cost-effectiveness for our new NIHR SWiM study www.dev.fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR20...
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Search - NIHR Funding and Awards
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John Holmes @jholmessheff.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I'll start on BlueSky with a thread of some recent research from our team: @sarg-scharr.bsky.social First, we found strong social patterning in how the type of drinking occasion people varies by sex, age and household income doi.org/10.1111/dar.....
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Drinking practices: The variation of drinking events across intersections of sex, age and household income
Introduction Investigations of drinking practices often rely on cross-country comparisons of population averages in beverage preferences, drinking volumes and frequencies. Here, we investigate withi...
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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I decided to join Bluesky
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