Health Research Board

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein.

Health research offers a varied and rewarding career choice.  With topics ranging from a-z or z to b in the case of zygomatic bone studies (your cheekbone), the scope of the field is enormous.

Health researchers work in hospitals, universities, industry, and government.  They might be making new cutting edge technologies, or examining how we organise and structure our health care services, and how we might make the actual system better or more efficient.

In the following pages we profile just four of the more than 700-HRB funded health researchers currently working in Ireland. These are; Louise Kenny, Katherine  Johnson, Aoife McSweeney, Nigel Stevenson.

You can also get a snapshot of the type of research that we fund from any of our Picture of Health publications.

“Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought” - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine.