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Adrian Barker
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16 Medi 2014 - 09:19

null What makes for good public health research?

Some reflections on my role on a NIHR board making recommendations on grants for public health research* We are constantly being bombarded with public health advice – don’t smoke, lose weight, only eat saturated fats if they’ve got the right number of carbon atoms.  But there remain huge gaps in our knowledge.  Fortunately, grants are available for high quality research, but what... Gweld mwy
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Adrian Barker
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01 Medi 2014 - 15:35

null Are you ‘a people’?

I was struck by a blog I read recently asking, ‘Am I not a people?’ The (very interesting) blog was asking whether civil servants can substitute themselves for ‘real people’ in the policy making process.  The answer was, no.  Though of course they are ‘real’, with “family, a kitchen to clean, bills to pay, hopes and dreams of my own”, the civil servant (or other person... Gweld mwy
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