Research
CHRE has delivered on a range of end-to-end healthcare projects, including problem identification, stakeholder mapping, data collection and analysis, and recommending innovative and practical solutions.
Our range of research projects with partners and collaborators across the world have a common theme: using robust methods to come to practical scalable solutions. e.g. our multi-stage research in the UK has systematically identified the bottlenecks in achieving a Smoke-free UK, and is enabling us to propose targeted interventions that can make a difference on the ground.
Stubbing out Smoking in the UK
Our latest press release on the impact of COVID-19 on behaviours of smokers and their healthcare advisors, May 27, 2021 Read ArticleCOVID-19: Risk of increase in smoking rates among England’s 6 million smokers and relapse among England’s 11 million ex-smokers
BJGPOpen, April 8, 2020 Read Article
Innovation
At CHRE, we believe that innovative solutions- from the fields of Behavioural Economics to Artificial Intelligence, have a key role to play in enhancing the likelihood of success in preventing cancers.
It is well established that the current available smoking cessation tools and services on the market achieve sub-optimal success rates. Our deep global insights into consumers and their healthcare influencers’ behaviours allow us to think outside the box when it comes to proposing interventions. These innovations straddle diverse areas such as edge computing to nicotine replacement product development.
Quitting tobacco in India: The Yin-Yang of Nicotine affordability
Economic Times; Healthworld.com, May 31, 2020 Read ArticleArtificial intelligence based tools for early oral cancer screening
CHRE is working with India’s health technology partners to bring innovative solutions in global cancer prevention., February 1, 2021 Read ArticleInnovative nicotine replacement products
CHRE continues to show thought leadership in tobacco cessation. Recently, CHRE's Dr Sudhanshu Patwardhan co-authored a commentary in the prestigious Nicotine and Tobacco Research Journal on what's needed to maximise the tobacco harm reduction potential of nicotine pouches, while ensuring that the unintended consequences of the products are minimised., October 4, 2021 Read Article
Education
At CHRE, we pride ourselves in understanding the knowledge gaps in converting policies into practice, and providing interventions that can address those unmet needs in healthcare delivery.
Covid-19 has surely been challenging for all, and though we have now hopefully crossed the peak, we will be seeing its implications for many months to come. Not just due to the physical illness itself, but also due to its effects on society’s mental health and resultant increased addictions.
Healthcare professionals will continue to consult significant proportion of patients remotely for many more months or years to come. We are aware how busy healthcare professionals are and we also know that it is important to support smokers stay away from cigarettes for better longer term health outcomes.
Quit During Covid-19
We made an infographic to be a handy tool for busy clinicians: ‘Help your patients Quit During Covid’. It is an aide memoire for clinicians to use while directly prescribing smoking cessation aids and supporting patients quit smoking, July 10, 2020 Read ArticleOur Resources
The Smoke-Free UK Project
Our mantra is to bridge the policy-practice gap in tobacco harm reduction
Quit During Covid-19- a support tool for clinicians to give their smoker patients
Self help tool for smokers to quit smoking & ex-smokers to prevent a relapse back to smoking.
Helping your patients 'Quit During Covid-19'
Aide memoire for busy clinicians
Tobacco Use and Indian Women
International Women’s Day 2022 #BreakTheBias
Tobacco Use and Indian Women
International Women’s Day 2022 #BreakTheBias