Grant Holders Conference 2025
Seeing around corners together. What's next for health and social care research?
2 min read - 14 Feb 2025
Our bi-annual conference brought together our principal investigators and key players in Ireland’s health research ecosystem.
This event was held at the Sheraton Hotel Athlone, it explored the theme “Looking around corners together – What’s next for health and social care research in Ireland.”
- What are the current as well as future challenges and opportunities at both the micro and macro levels for health research.
- National and international developments in our education, and research and innovation systems, and how we systematically translate new findings into policy and practice in our healthcare systems.
- What cross-cutting lessons can we learn from fields such as implementation science, personalised medicine, cancer care, genomics and big data, the shift to community and social care.
- What will national and global health and social care research look like in the future?
And how all these factors could shape, enable or influence our future ambitions and investments in health research and the health research ecosystem.
The event explored all the above in three themed sessions.
Theme 1: Setting the scene. What is happening from a regional, national, EU and international perspective and what changes are taking place in our health system, our education system, and the overall funding environment.
Theme 2: A Deeper dive. A look at emerging trends and/or blockages through the lens of implementation science and data collaboration with a selection of case studies from cross-cutting HRB funded projects.
Theme 3: The path ahead. What is next for health and social care research? From global to local, the HRB is in listening mode and wants your input.
Videos of the Conference Speaker are available below
Dr Ester Cardinaal – Radboud University Medical Centre – Yesterdays’ Actions Won’t Solve Tomorrow’s Challenges – Lessons (to be) learned
Professor Mark Lawler – Queen’s University Belfast – The need to deliver research with impact – data as an enabler
Professor Helen Whelton – University College Cork – Enhancing Patient Outcomes through Academic Health Science Systems: A Vision for Education, Research, and Innovation in Health and Social Care
Dr Laura Keyes – University of Limerick – Embedding implementation science principles in health research from discovery to adoption
Dr Laura Whelan – RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences A new era for Genomics in Ireland
Dr Sonya Deschênes – University College Dublin Using Secondary Data to Address Comorbidities and Improve Population Health & Wellbeing
Dr Conor Judge -University of Galway Testing Artificial Intelligence Interventions with Pragmatic Trials
Professor Eoin Feeney – University College Dublin Emerging Global Health Threats – How can Ireland React?
Dr Kumanan Rasanathan – WHO Fit for purpose? The future of research systems and health and social care systems in an era of rapid change
2 min read - 14 Feb 2025
