The programme provides the opportunity to obtain a Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degree in year one (for those candidates that do not possess this and/or an equivalent qualification), followed by three years of mentored research in the NCI’s Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program in Maryland. Fellows can opt for a fifth year of reintegration funding to facilitate their return to Ireland to progress their careers as independent researchers. The HRB funds the costs associated with year 1 and mobility to/from USA. The NCI covers all costs associated with the three years of mentored research at the NCI and the HRB and Irish Cancer Society jointly fund the fifth reintegration year.
Dr Diarmuid Coughlan is a former Health Research Board/National Cancer Institute Health Economics in Cancer Prevention PhD Fellow. As part of this PhD fellowship, he engaged in training a part of the SPHeRE structured PhD programme, and then engaged in a research project between National University of Ireland, Galway and Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (where he was based in the Department of Health Policy and Management 2010-2012). His project assessed onco-policy with a particular focus on HPV-related Head and Neck Cancer
