ScHARR is one of the eight members of the School for Public Health Research (SoPHR)
funded by the NIHR to advance and promote applied public health research.
The NIHR School for Public Health Research will aim to increase the evidence
base for effective public health practice by conducting research to increase the volume and quality of applied public
health research and evidence, including evaluations and creating an environment where first class applied public health
research, focussed on the needs of the public, can thrive.
As part of SoPHR, a team at the University of Sheffield, including
Louise Preston of Information Resources (other team members are Alan Brennan,
Jim Chilcott, Liddy Goyder, Nick Payne, Hazel Squires, Penny Watson and Mike
Gillett and external collaborators from Cambridge, Peninsula Medical School and
LiLAC) are working on a project to assess the effectiveness and
cost-effectiveness of population / community public health interventions and
targeted identification and screening interventions for type 2 diabetes
prevention using a common modelling framework to support translation of
knowledge into action.
As part of this project, in early October we held a stakeholder workshop
within ScHARR with external collaborators, local GPs and commissioners and
patient representatives to work on the development of a conceptual model to
support the project. This was followed up by a poster presentation at the
annual SoPHR conference held in Sheffield. Work on the project involves
modelling, reviewing and information retrieval to faciliate modelling and
reviewing based on methods developed in the recently completed NIHR
Fellowship by Suzy Paisley.
Louise Preston
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