Stuart Wright

Swiss woman is denied entry at the US border and detained «You have no right to be here.» A teacher wanted to celebrate her birthday in New York. Instead, she was jailed in New Jersey before being deported. A lawyer warns that something similar could happen ...

This is part of the reason why I have suspended all travel to the United States indefinitely. A Swiss teacher wanted to celebrate her birthday in New York with friends but instead was detained, shackled, and sent off to a detention center in New Jersey.

No thanks!

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(2/2) Join us for presentations from three talented ECRs (@mvhvu.bsky.social‬, Francisco Santos-Gonzalez, and Amber Salisbury) followed by discussions led by senior health economists (Son Nghiem, Martin Downes, ‪@rich-norman.bsky.social).‬

We hope to see you there!

#ECRs #healtheconomics #genomics

(1/1) REMINDER: The #IHEA Econ-Omics Special Interest Group is hosting an Early Career Researcher (ECR) Journal Club next week:

🗓️ Tuesday, 15 July
⏰ 8-10am UTC | 9-11am BST | 6-8pm AEST
🔗 Register: healtheconomics.org/event/early-...

New blog post from me: Further Adventures in Open Source Modelling

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I discuss the opportunities that have arisen from making our breast cancer screening model open access and our shift to becoming consumers of open research as well as producers.

Catch our centre lead Prof Rachel Elliott on Humans of Clinical Academia!

Research Associate in Health Economics:Oxford Road

The Manchester Centre for Health Economics has three new Research Associate positions in Health Economics (£37,174 - £41,671 p/a). These are 24-month fixed-term contracts from July 2025 to June 2027.

For full details and to apply, visit
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Looking forward to a day of early detection research today.

Presenting a poster later on our DCE exploring younger women's preferences for a breast cancer risk prediction service.

Fully funded PhD studentship – Manchester, UK - Appraisal of the cost effectiveness of systemic therapies for psoriasis in the era of biosimilars #healtheconomics

Why Does a Person’s Life Expectancy Drop by 30 Years if they don’t Have a Home? Author: Jenny Doak // Editors: Elan Shellard & Rashmi Danwaththa Liyanage What is Homelessness? For most people, the term ‘homeless’ conjures up images of a person sleeping on the streets. Howe…

Blog about homelessness written by Jenny, an excellent PhD student I am co-supervising with funding from @nihr-gmpsrc.bsky.social and NIHR Manchester BRC

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If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

I am beyond excited to share that you can now apply to observe a @wellcometrust.bsky.social #DiscoveryResearch shortlisting Committee! If you plan to apply to us in the next 2 years, apply to be an Observer now to better understand what happens once you click submit! wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

NEXT WEEK: Join Professor Katherine Payne’s talk on generating economic evidence to understand the potential impact of pharmacogenetic testing #IHEA #healtheconomics #pharmacogenetics healtheconomics.org/event/econ-o...

Productive day of R coding today.

Started with model 90% complete.

Finished with model 50% complete.

Then you go back on later and its like "here's three new things that are vaguely relevant now stop scrolling and get back to work"

Not sure if its a feature, a bug, or just because I don't follow enough people yet but my favourite thing about this site is that occasionally you reach the end of it.

Like you have the discover tab to find out everything that's going on in the world, get annoyed and then it just runs out

I think for some people that experience of living in another country would still be really valuable. But I guess I just wanted to let people who can't do that kind of working know that there is another way of doing it. Anyway, now I'm off to do bedtime duty for the next week!

This is particularly true now we are all much more connected online. We have arranged monthly meetings to progress the work in the meantime and have well laid out plans which will help keep momentum 5/n

It obviously helps being based in Europe in that it's easy to travel quickly between countries and do these short visits. But I wanted to kind of let people know that there is this alternative way of doing visits that does feel like it will work 4/n

Now I can go away and start working on a joint project (in collaboration with a PhD student from the centre) before coming back next year to check in and push the project along. 3/n

I'm just finishing my first visit of 3 days to the health economics group at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and feel like this is going to work really well. We have had quite an intense few days of presentations and meetings but we've set things up well for working in the future 2/n

As part of PhDs and fellowships it's seen as a good thing to go on research visits. When I was writing my fellowship application I wanted to work this in but as a parent with young kids it's difficult to spend a big chunk of time abroad. So I'm trying to do more frequent short visits instead 1/n

We’re thrilled to launch DaCHE - Danish Centre for Health Economics on Bluesky! 🎉

Follow us for updates from the DaCHE team:
✅ Our newest publications and reports
✅ Highlights from conferences, workshops, and research visits
✅ Collaboration opportunities and job postings
✅ ...And much more!

Come work with me!

Looking to carry out model-based economic evaluations for two projects relating to cancer diagnosis.

Deadline for applications is 27 November - happy to answer questions about the role!

Further details at tinyurl.com/4pvahsy7

We are also doing a little bit of work in lung cancer screening and have some other exciting things in the pipeline but I'm not sure I'm allowed to post them yet! n/n

Young mum grateful for Sarah Harding cancer trial 'legacy' Sarah Harding inspired a cancer study which identifies young women's risk of developing the disease.

We're also looking into the acceptability of breast cancer risk prediction in younger women to help catch cancers in women who haven't reached the UK screening start age. 12/n

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GitHub - stuwrighthealthecon/MANC-RISK-SCREEN: This repository contains the files required to run a discrete event simulation based economic evaluation of a number of different screening strategies to... This repository contains the files required to run a discrete event simulation based economic evaluation of a number of different screening strategies to detect breast cancer in women in the UK - s...

We have an open source model (sensing a pattern here?) of risk-stratified cancer screening called MANC-RISK-SCREEN.

The code is freely available here: github.com/stuwrighthea...

We're currently working on version 1.3 adding in error in risk prediction and "chemoprevention" 11/n

We are also involved in ongoing work evaluating the cost-effectiveness of risk-stratified breast cancer screening in the UK. The principle of risk-stratified screening is that you can adapt an individual's screening intervals depending on their predicted cancer risk 10/n

(I'm off on a research visit hosted by Valesca Retèl at the Netherlands Cancer Institute next week to learn about these approaches but I'll post more about that later)

I'll also be using methods from imp sci to identify barriers to the health system providing self-sampling before condensing these barriers into implementation scenarios using a scenario drafting approach.

I'll then model the cost-effectiveness of the intervention in each scenario 8/n

In my project I'm building an open-source model of cervical cancer screening for the UK. I'll then build in the predicted uptake for different sampling approaches based on the results of a DCE fielded in a representative sample but also groups poorly served by current screening approaches 7/n