Community and Health Research Unit
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Dr Indika Kumara Wanninayake arrived in the UK a year ago to begin a placement with CaHRU as an International Visiting Fellow, from the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine at the University of Colombo, sponsored by the Sri Lankan government. Indika Continue reading Dr Indika Wanninayake gives farewell presentation
On 24th May Despina Laparidou gave the latest CaHRU seminar on the topic of qualitative systematic reviews. Despina has been a health services researcher at CaHRU since 2014 where she leads the systematic review programme. Despina gave a brief introduction Continue reading Improvement Science and Research Methods seminar May 2022: Qualitative systematic reviews by Despina Laparidou
Members from the Community and Health Research Unit provided elevator and poster presentations at this year’s 999 EMS Research Foum Conference online, ‘All in this together: collaboration in emergency prehospital care research’. Highlights from the CaHRU team included a rapid Continue reading CaHRU’s Despina Laparidou wins prize at 999 EMS Research Forum conference
The March improvement science and research methods seminar, Using Track and Trace data to model the early phase of Covid-19 Epidemic in Lincolnshire. Empirical evidence for the rule of six, was given by Dr Zahid Asghar on 23rd March. Dr Continue reading Improvement Science and Research Methods seminar March 2022: Mathematical modelling of epidemics by Dr Zahid Asghar
On 26th April, Kim Kirby, a clinical academic paramedic at South Western Ambulance Service and PhD candidate at University of the West of England gave the CaHRU research seminar. Kim is funded on a National Institute for Health Research Clinical Continue reading Improvement science and research methods seminar April 2022: Kim Kirby on Conversation analysis