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What we're about

The Health Research Board is the lead agency in Ireland supporting and funding health research.

Research underpins development and progress in every industry,and healthcare is no different. The HRB’s Strategic Business Plan 2010-2014 recognises the importance of establishing a co-ordinated approach so as to achieve the highest quality health research and developing the right skills, conditions and capacity in the Irish health system, in order to accelerate the translation of research discoveries into real benefits for people.

Our Vision:

Healthy people through excellent research and applied knowledge.

Our Mission:

To improve people’s health, patient care and health service delivery by:

  • leading and supporting excellent research by outstanding people within a coherent health research system;
  • generating knowledge and promoting its application in policy and practice; and, in doing so, play a key role in health system innovation and economic development.
Our Goals:

Over the five years of this plan, we will focus on four strategic goals toachieve our vision and execute our mission:

  1. Driving the development of excellent clinical research, including applied biomedical research, within a coherent health research system.
  2. Building capacity to conduct high-quality population health sciences research and health services research.
  3. Working with key partners to develop and manage high-quality national health information systems.
  4. Generating and synthesising evidence, and promoting the application of knowledge to support decision-making by policymakers and relevant practitioners.
Overarching Principles:

In pursuit of our mission, the core principles that will consistently shape our thinking and our approach in everything we do are:

  • Commitment to a culture of excellence in researchand evaluation.
  • Leadership of health research through partnership and collaboration.
  • Determination to have knowledge translated and applied.
  • Commitment to having research at the core of the health system.
  • Focus on good governance, high performance and value for money.