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'Methods to Include Environmental Impacts in Health Economic Evaluations and Health Technology Assessments: A Scoping Review' led by Jake Williams, a PhD student at the NHMRC CTC , was recently published in Value in Health journal. 🔬📖

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🐾 Less is more for greener intensive care! The #ICU is a carbon hotspot within hospitals... limit low-value or harmful care, including unnecessary screening, diagnostic/monitoring tests, diagnoses (overdiagnosis) & treatment (overtreatment).
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Using the Behaviour Change Wheel to identify barriers & targeted strategies to improve adherence in RCTs: The example of MEL-SELF trial of patient-led surveillance for melanoma
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
by Dee Ackermann & Katy Bell with Monika Janda Karen Bracken Robin Turner & me

Congratulations to Professor Katy Bell, Professor Anthony Don & Dr Johanna Birrell who have each been awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council NHMRC Research Excellence Award!

The prestigious awards recognise excellence in the medical and health research sector.

'I’m delighted Katy, Anthony and Johanna's outstanding research, impact and leadership have been recognised – this achievement is richly deserved,' said Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Prof Emma L Johnston AO FAA FTSE.

Read more: sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/n…

#LeadershipForGood

So honoured to receive the 2023 NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Investigator Grant Award for Leadership in Health Services Research! Wonderful to have this recognition of clinical #epidemiology & the need for sustainable healthcare. Thank you to my mentors, collaborators, & team 🙏🏻

NHMRC celebrated exceptional health and medical research at our annual Research Excellence Awards this evening. Read the full list of our 2023 award winners (pictured) on our website here: ow.ly/21Vq50R2OYG #NHMRCAwards

A PhD opportunity for Australia-based candidates has opened. The project will investigate the PH impacts of Vitamin D.
If interested, please get email Prof Katy Bell (visit Prof Bell's page sydney.edu.au/medicine-healt…)

new paper in MJA with Katy Bell jadoust and colleagues
We found the 'number of new ICDs inserted in NSW has increased since 2005. A substantial proportion of recipients experience device‐related problems that require re‐admission to hospital.'
mja.com.au/journal/2024/2…

Melanoma overdiagnosis among white Americans is significant and increasing over time with an estimated 44 000 overdiagnosed in men and 39 000 in women in 2018.
ebm.bmj.com/content/early/…

Ecological study estimating melanoma overdiagnosis in the USA using the lifetime risk method

Original research by @adeadamson Katy Bell Dell Medical School Sydney Public Health @DellMedCPC

Link: bit.ly/3SEertT

Ecological study estimating melanoma overdiagnosis in the USA using the lifetime risk method

Original research by @adeadamson Katy Bell Dell Medical School Sydney Public Health Cancer Prevention and Control Program @DellMed

Link: bit.ly/3SEertT

Ecological study estimating melanoma overdiagnosis in the USA using the lifetime risk method
ebm.bmj.com/content/early/… via Ade Adamson, MD MPP & Katy Bell et al

Very pleased to publish this contribution to the methodology of over-diagnosis in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. More of the same please!