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Health Services Research UK Conference 2021
Tuesday, 06 July 2021 to Thursday, 08 July 2021
Registrations are open for the Health Services Research UK Conference 2021 which takes place online this year from 6-8 July. Early Bird rates are available to all until 15 March and as someone in an HSR UK member organisation, you'll also receive a member discount.
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Introduction to Evaluation Online - application deadline
Monday, 06 September 2021 to Tuesday, 19 October 2021
Online short course aimed at staff in frontline services in the NHS, local government and social care organisation. The deadline to apply is 8th August 2021.
Oxford BRC Symposium: Tackling COVID-19 together: Building a multi-disciplinary approach to help vaccinate the world
Wednesday, 08 September 2021, 1pm to 5pm
This symposium is to provide a multi-disciplinary forum focusing on effective ways to promote vaccine uptake and to ensure public support for the effort and resources required to vaccinate the world. The symposium will bring together perspectives of immunologists, epidemiologists, psychologists, economists and political scientists on these questions. They will present the latest evidence and discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Health Econometrics and Policy Evaluation
Monday, 04 October 2021 to Wednesday, 06 October 2021
This online course will serve as an introduction to some of the concepts and principles in the economics of health and health care, and will provide an in-depth understanding of some tools usually used by health economists to study health policy issues.
American-European Health Economics Study Group - VI Edition
Thursday, 30 June 2022 to Friday, 01 July 2022 @ UPF University, CRES, Barcelona, Spain
This study group provides a forum of two days for bringing together graduates and researchers who wish to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related health economics. Participants are expected to attend the entire meeting and take an active part as either author or discussant. The gala dinner of the workshop will take on 30th June.
Latest news
New Senior Research Fellows named
5 July 2021
The NIHR ARC OxTV and the NIHR Oxford BRC have announced the appointment of its latest group of Senior Research Fellows.
NIHR ARC OxTV supported PRINCIPLE trial 'highly commended' for innovative use of health data
5 July 2021
The PRINCIPLE trial, which the NIHR ARC OxTV was a fundamental part of setting up in the early days of the pandemic, has been highly commended at the Health Data Research UK Awards for the way in which patient data is utilised so participants are contacted about the trial soon after receiving a positive test result.
Future-Proofing Mental Health
10 May 2021
ARC OxTV Mental Health across the Lifecourse theme lead, Professor Cathy Creswell is among a number of UK academics calling, in Journal of Mental Health, for targets for mental health research in order to meet the healthcare challenges of the next decade.
Children and Adolescents’ Mental Health: One Year On
5 May 2021
The ARC OxTV supported 'COVID-19 Supporting Parents, Adolescents, and Children in Epidemic (CO-SPACE) study, reports that behavioural, emotional and attentional difficulties in children changed considerably throughout the past year, increasing in times of national lockdown and decreasing as restrictions eased and schools reopened.
New study shows potential link between bodyweight and risk of severe COVID-19, especially for younger adults
29 April 2021
The first large study to report the effect of bodyweight on risk of worse outcomes from COVID-19 across the full range of body mass index (BMI) is published today in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology journal.