Alan Brennan

10TH UK PROMS CONFERENCE - REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN! Join us in Sheffield on 23 June 2026 #healtheconomics

YouTube video by Policy Research Unit (PRU) in Addictions Introducing the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Addictions: Research That Shapes Policy

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

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

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

22 mins from grenoside every day

Thankfully the electric bike gets me home without a sweat too

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:

Thanks for sharing Sarah’s paper Nancy 😊👍🏼

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...

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

YouTube video by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) NICE webinar | Extensions to CHEERS 2022: Recent Additions and Future Opportunities

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

Nick Heather - Wikipedia

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)

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…

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

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

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

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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.

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

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I’ll be there Thursday I think

I’m further up river on holidays

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.

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...

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...

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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Well done Charlotte 😊👍🏼

I promise …

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...

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

Three of my favourite things

Public health research

NIHR

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Sunny Redcar

A view of Weston Park pond with the Arts Tower in the background

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...

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

@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...

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...

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.....