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• News: EPSRC funded PhD Studentship in Digital Civics (Public Health and Social Care); Abstract Call and Registration - HSRUK Symposium 2017.
• Events: Measuring everything everywhere: the Global Burden of Disease study and its use by Public Health England; Public Engagement with Research; Innovating Towards a More Inclusive Future; Innovation & Strategies for Digital Interventions in Mental Health

News 

EPSRC funded PhD Studentship in Digital Civics (Public Health and Social Care)

The EPSRC have fully funded four-year doctoral studentships in Digital Civics in Public Health or Social Care available (commencing September 2017) and are seeking applicants with a passion for civic life, an interest in how digital technologies can be used to support citizens and communities, and an undergraduate or masters level education in public health, health services, social science or a related subject.

For more information please see our website.

Abstract Call and Registration – HSRUK Symposium 2017

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (PRESENTATION AND/OR POSTER)  

The Symposium welcomes abstracts on all aspects of health services and policy research. They are inviting abstracts on the following themes: Access and equity; Commissioning; Emergency; Improvement Science; Innovation; Integrated care; Methods; Organisations; Patient voice; Patient experience; Quality; Workforce.

CALL FOR SESSIONS
The Symposium 2017 call includes the option to submit joint proposals to run sessions or workshops. We welcome proposals on all aspects of health services and policy research.

More information available on our website.

Events 

Measuring everything everywhere: the Global Burden of Disease study and its use by Public Health England

Friday 3 February 2017

Cambridge

Chaired by Dr John Battersby, Training and Workforce Lead for Knowledge & Intelligence, PHE. This talk is part of the Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health series.

For more information please click here.

Public Engagement with Research

Wednesday 8^th February 2017

Cambridge

A talk by Dr Giles Yeo Director of Genomics/Transcriptomics.

For more information please see on our website.

Innovating Towards a More Inclusive Future

23 March 2017

Cambridge

Saqib Shaikh, a software engineer at Microsoft, has personal experience of how technology has greatly improved his life, as someone who is visually impaired.

He will describe research at Microsoft to empower disabled people, and how he believes that innovations for a specialist group can lead to mainstream technologies, and thus create a more inclusive environment.

More information on the event is on our website

Innovation & Strategies for Digital Interventions in Mental Health

31 July – 2 August 2017

London

How can psychiatry, social media technology and culture be combined to create positive change for mental health?

Lecture Themes: The Digital Psychiatrist; Ethics, Policy and the Public Sphere; Technology & Methodologies; Global Digital Mental Health, Society and Culture.

Please find more information here.

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