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Professor of Health Economics & Decision Modelling. SCHARR, University of Sheffield #healtheconomics https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smph/people/population-health/alan-brennan https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alan-brennan-1445392b .. more

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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social · Aug 23

I’ll pop and see you next darts 😊👍🏼
Can you email me when it is

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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social · Aug 21

Hi Andy
Gutted
And
I’m sure you’ll be super successful

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Prof Amelia Lake @lakenutrition.bsky.social · Dec 3

Job opportunity: postdoc at @liverpooluni.bsky.social with Dr Charlotte Buckley on @nihr.bsky.social funded NOURISH project (Nutrition, Obesity and Unhealthy food Relationships in food Insecure populations: Systems modelling of Health-related policies and outcomes)

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR046/r...

Research Associate - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

An academic position as a Research Associate - Grade 7 is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social · Mar 22

22 mins from grenoside every day

Thankfully the electric bike gets me home without a sweat too

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Lauren Forrest @laurenforrest.bsky.social · Mar 22

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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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social · Mar 21

Thanks for sharing Sarah’s paper Nancy 😊👍🏼

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · Mar 21

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

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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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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social · Mar 17

Is there a way to watch / attend online ? I could quite tell from the link

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Natalia Kunst @nataliakunst.bsky.social · Mar 12

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...

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 · Mar 10

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

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 · Mar 10

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

Current Issue Table of Contents: Value in Health

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MRC Epidemiology Unit @mrcepid.bsky.social · Mar 8

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

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healtheconall @healtheconall.bsky.social · Feb 27

Vacancy: Research Associate in Normative Social Preferences, SCHARR, University of Sheffield, UK #healtheconomics

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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Matt Field @fieldmatt.bsky.social · Feb 27

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)

Nick Heather - Wikipedia

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Wendy @wendyhendy.bsky.social · Feb 26

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

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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Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) @lhgp.bsky.social · Feb 25

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➡️
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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social · Feb 18

Ah
Magic

I’ll be there Thursday I think

I’m further up river on holidays

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healtheconall @healtheconall.bsky.social · Feb 17

Paper of interest: Women in UK Academic Health Economics: an evaluation of progress since the 1970s #healtheconomics

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 · Feb 14

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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Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social · Jan 23

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 · Jan 23

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...

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 · Dec 13

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

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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social · Dec 12

Well done Charlotte 😊👍🏼

I promise …

there is no promise you can make that i can trust

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SARG - SCHARR @sarg-scharr.bsky.social · Dec 12

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

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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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social · Dec 10

Three of my favourite things

Public health research

NIHR

&

Sunny Redcar

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The University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social · Dec 10

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 · Dec 3

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

Prof Amelia Lake @lakenutrition.bsky.social · Dec 3

Research Associate - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

An academic position as a Research Associate - Grade 7 is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social · Nov 19

@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...

Search - NIHR Funding and Awards

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John Holmes @jholmessheff.bsky.social · Nov 18

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.....

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 · Nov 17

I decided to join Bluesky

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