Funding Awarded

Artificial Intelligence approach to improving blood pressure treatment

Hypertension is the leading cause of premature death worldwide, but the prevalence of hypertension control remains low. Physician capacity (number of physician clinic visits available for hypertension care) is a critical rate-limiting, determinant of hypertension control resulting in a major care-gap in hypertension management in all...

Building Connections workshop series

Building Connections workshop series

Dates: Workshops series in Autumn 2023 and a main event, An Meitheal, 21 October 2023
Venues: Venues at 3 community organisations (Dublin & Galway), An Meitheal at community venue,...

Staphylococcus Great Britain and Ireland 2023

This biannual event, which has been running for over 20 years, brings together the research community in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the UK working on all aspects of Staphylococcal Diseases. Staphylococci, including MRSA, are leading causes of bacterial infection in both hospitals and the community. New antibiotic development has not...

Clinical trials: what are they and why are they important.

Randomised trials are an important research design and can provide reliable and robust evidence on the benefits, harms and costs of health care. Substantial public and charitable funding is allocated to clinical trials every year. However, there are concerns that much of this is wasted.1 The reasons for such waste include inadequate...

Identifying and Addressing the Barriers to Home Haemodialysis (DREAM)

Kidney disease is becoming more common. This means that more people require kidney transplants and haemodialysis. Haemodialysis is a way of replacing the functions of failing kidneys by using an external machine to clean the blood. Haemodialysis is usually carried out in a hospital. However, after training, many patients and their...

Student Experiences of Health Psychology in the US (STEP-US): A mixed methods study with US Health Psychology doctoral students and programme leads.

The "Student Experiences of Health Psychology in the US (STEP-US): A mixed methods study with US Health Psychology doctoral students and programme leads" project aims to explore understanding of Health Psychology, experiences of training and career supports, and diversity within US Health Psychology doctoral training programmes. The...

Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Ecological Momentary Assessment Data to Investigate Complex Suicide Processes.

Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) provides moment-to-moment recording of suicide risk factors that can be feasibly monitored via mobile app. Machine Learning techniques applied to such data can help identify complex risk algorithms that one-time clinic-based assessments struggle to capture. The SafePlan trial, a Pilot Randomised...

Using Bayesian network models to predict the impact of public health interventions on disease-prevalence in population health research

Population Health Research studies determinants of health and disease with the goal of identifying interventions that promote health and reduce the burden of disease. Deciding on an appropriate intervention mandates a prior forecast of the intervention's effect on disease. For example, for an intervention targeting smoking, we might...

PPI Ignite Award - National University of Ireland Galway

The Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) Ignite Awards aim to promote PPI in health research in Ireland. Our NUI Galway Primary Care PPI group of patients and members of the public were asked to describe what a successful PPI Ignite project would look like (Figure 3). They responded by saying that success would be creating an...

PPI Ignite Award - University College Dublin

UCD in collaboration with 10 partner organisations will develop a PPI network and resource platform called UCD PPI Ignite Connect that will seek to firmly embed patient and public involvement in UCD's research,learning and teaching activities and in its academic processes. The partner organisations include the Ireland East Hospital...

PPI Ignite Award - Dublin City University

Patient and public involvement means carrying out research with or by members of the public rather than to, about or for them. This PPI Ignite award plans to improve patient and public involvement in health and social care research. We will do this by bringing people who use health services (patients, carers, and/or their...

PPI Ignite Award - University of Limerick

PPI Ignite at the University of Limerick will serve as a rallying point within the university and the wider community it serves, to build capacity for research conducted  "with" or "by" patients and members of the public rather than "to", "about" or "for" them. PPI Ignite UL will accomplish this among a coalition of academic,...

PPI Ignite Award - Trinity College Dublin

Research is considered "engaged" when it is developed in collaboration with patients, community members and partnering organisations rather than for or about them. Such public and patient involvement improves the relevancy of the research question, the quality of the approach, and the likelihood that what is discovered through the...