NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration Aberdeen

26/01/2026

FREE Webinar on Economic Evaluation 💸

Economic evaluation is an methodological approach for assessing the wider financial costs and benefits of an intervention - something professionals and practitioners from any sector would really benefit from. Especially given the current financial climate.

Delivered by Prof Paul McNamee from the Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen and hosted by HDRC Aberdeen

Wed 11 Feb
14:00 - 15:30
Online on MS Teams

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08/12/2025

Some Council Officers, Academics, and Public Health Practitioners walk into a Beach Ballroom.

This isn't a joke, but it was a fun and insightful event that sought to build collaborative research projects to have meaningful impact on Aberdeen's health inequalities.

Read more in our Sandpit Report below 👇

The Building Blocks of Health: Co-designing Research to Reduce Health Inequalities in Aberdeen City using a Sandpit Approach

04/12/2025

All are welcome to our next HDRC Seminar, this time with our very own Dr Clair Woods-Brown presenting her work and findings on using Co-Pilot (a widely-used AI tool) to analyse qualitative data.

A very useful and practical session for anyone looking to get a bit more savvy with AI tools and/or ways to analyse qualitative data

Tue 9th Dec, 14:00 - 15:30
Online on MS Teams

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Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

06/11/2025

We're excited to share our work on the Health and Social Care Needs of Asylum Seekers in high-income countries

Areas of focus include:
💜 Discrimination
🗣️ Communication barriers
👨‍⚕️ Training of Health Professionals
🏠 Living conditions

There is still a need for more research in this area, particularly across a large number of countries. However, this review attempts to pull together a range of papers to give a clearer picture of of health and social care needs of asylum seekers