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Published: 20 December 2021
Outputs, outcomes, and emerging impacts: Results from HRB-funded awards that completed in 2018–19
This report presents a snapshot of the outputs, outcomes, and some emerging impacts arising from 170 Health Research Board (HRB) awards (with a combined value of €49.5 million) that completed in 2018 and 2019. Further outputs, outcomes, and impacts can be expected to occur in the years following the completion of these...
Published: 17 December 2019
Outputs, outcomes and emerging impacts
Outputs, outcomes and emerging impacts: Results from HRB awards completed in 2016/2017
This report presents a snapshot of, and provides trend analysis over 10 years for, the outputs, outcomes and some emerging impacts from 187 HRB awards (combined value of €47.2 million) that completed in 2016 and...
Published: 28 November 2019
An evaluation of HRB investment in health research leaders
Since 2004, the HRB has invested €37.9 million to support the development of leaders in research in both the academic and clinical environments through the Research Leader Awards in Population Health and Health Services Research (RLA in PHHSR) and the Clinician Scientist Awards (CSA).
This evaluation was conducted by...
Published: 29 August 2019
Review of clinical research infrastructure in Ireland
This report presents the outcomes of a review of HRB’s investment in clinical research infrastructures in Ireland conducted in 2018. The aim of the review was to generate appropriate evidence on current strengths, synergies, gaps, duplications and needs in Ireland's clinical research infrastructures, either those funded...
Published: 18 December 2018
Health Research in Ireland - A study of activity from 2011 to 2015 using the Health Research Classification System
This study examines funding awards based on the type of research conducted and the disease area of interest. It uses the United Kingdom (UK) Health Research Classification System (HRCS).
Seven national funding agencies that manage research programmes provided data for this analysis. These were, Enterprise Ireland...
Published: 07 April 2017
Outputs and outcomes of HRB awards completed in 2014 and 2015
This report presents an analysis of the outputs, outcomes and some emerging impacts across a range of evaluation metrics and indicators, arising from 198 HRB grants (combined value of €55 million) that completed in 2014 and 2015. The analysis presented is a snapshot at the point of end-of-grant (EOG). Further outputs,...
Published: 29 March 2017
Bibliometric analysis of research publication output supported by the Health Research Board (2013 - 2016)
This report presents the results of a bibliometric study of peer reviewed publications fully or partially funded by the Health Research Board (HRB). The bibliometric analysis for this study was commissioned from CWTS Leiden, a world-leader in this area.
The results of that analysis were compared, where possible, to a...
Published: 28 January 2015
Outputs and outcomes of HRB awards completed in 2012 and 2013
This report presents an analysis of 134 HRB grants (combined spend of €44 million) that completed in 2012 and 2013. It provides an overview of the initial outputs and some outcomes arising from these grants across a range of metrics and indicators. An important proviso in considering this report is that the...
Published: 04 March 2014
Bibliometric analysis of HRB-supported publications 2000-12
This report was commissioned by the Health Research Board (HRB) which contracted Thomson Reuters (Evidence) to conduct a bibliometric analysis of HRB-supported publications between 2000 and 2012.
HRB-supported publications were matched to the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge and supplemented...
Published: 04 March 2014
Outputs, outcomes and impacts arising from the HRB's 2000-09 grants portfolio
This report presents an analysis of the key outputs, outcomes and impacts that have arisen to date from HRB research grants awarded in the period from 2000 to 2009. Throughout this ten year period, the HRB broadened its investment beyond biomedical research towards a greater emphasis on clinical research, population health...
Published: 28 January 2013
Analysis and outputs of HRB grants completed in 2010 and 2011
This report presents an analysis of the 196 HRB grants (combined spend of €54.5 million) that completed in 2010 and 2011 and provides an overview of the initial outputs and outcomes arising from these grants. The purpose of the report is to provide HRB Management and the Board with strategically useful information on the...
Published: 07 June 2012
Review of All-Ireland Cochrane Training Fellowship Scheme
The Cochrane Training Fellowship (CTF) scheme is unique to Ireland (North and South) and was developed to build capacity on the island to conduct high quality systematic reviews. The CTF scheme has been co-funded by the HRB and the HSC R&D Division of Northern Ireland since 2002. In 2011, the HRB carried out a...
Published: 02 March 2012
Impact assessment of the All-Ireland Cooperative Oncology Research Group
The All-Ireland Cooperative Oncology Research Group (ICORG) was set up in 1996 to create more research opportunities for clinical trials in the field of oncology. Up until 2011, ICORG has received €36.5 million to build capacity for cancer clinical trials in Ireland from the Health Research Board (HRB)....
Published: 13 June 2011
Review of population health research and health services research in Ireland - Volume 2
This review was carried out in the context of the national health strategy, Quality and fairness: A health system for you (DoHC, 2001), which aims to "deliver a healthier population and a world-class health system", and in response to national momentum to make Irish research world class and to use the knowledge generated by...
Published: 13 June 2011
Review of population health research and health services research in Ireland - Volume 1
This review was carried out in the context of the national health strategy, Quality and fairness: A health system for you (DoHC, 2001), which aims to "deliver a healthier population and a world-class health system", and in response to national momentum to make Irish research world class and to use the knowledge generated by...
Published: 28 January 2011
Analysis and Outputs of HRB Grants completed in 2008 and 2009
This report presents an analysis of 204 HRB grants that completed in 2008 and 2009 and provides an initial overview of the outputs and outcomes arising from these grants. The purpose of the report is to provide management, the Board and Executive Team with strategically useful information in terms of the payback from...
Published: 29 July 2010
The identification of research priorities for therapy professions in Ireland - summary report
The therapy professions make up a significant and growing proportion of the health-care workforce in Ireland. In December 2008, the Therapy Advisory Unitof theDepartment of Health and Children published A Research Strategy for the Therapy Professions (DoHC, 2008b). One of its strategic...
Published: 29 July 2010
The identification of research priorities for therapy professions in Ireland - main report
The therapy professions make up a significant and growing proportion of the health-care workforce in Ireland. In December 2008, the Therapy Advisory Unitof theDepartment of Health and Children published A Research Strategy for the Therapy Professions (DoHC, 2008b). One of its strategic...
Published: 12 May 2009
Recommendations for the establishment of a national cancer biobank
This report outlines recommendations for the establishment of a National Cancer Biobank. It sets out the Expert Group's vision of a working National Cancer Biobank. It is informed by the views of stakeholders, as recorded by a national stakeholder consultation process which took place from March to May 2008 (Appendix C)....
Published: 11 May 2008
Making an impact - The economic and social benefits of HRB-funded research
This report, prepared for the Health Research Board (HRB), examines the wider impacts of eight HRB-funded grants from the early and mid-1990s. These impacts are identified using a case study approach, built on the payback framework for research evaluation. The report then considers the economic repercussions of these wider...
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