Programme
Thursday 11 February 15.00 - 17.15
Session A | HRB Strategy 2021-2025: Health research – making an impact
This session introduced attendees to the new five-year HRB Strategy, taking an in-depth look at several key areas of focus over the next five years.
15.00 - 15.05
Opening and welcome: Dr Mairéad O Driscoll, Chief Executive, Health Research Board
15.05 - 15.30
Keynote: Dr Liisa-Maria Voipio-Pulkki, Director General of Strategic Affairs and Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
Data in the service of people´s health and wellbeing – case study Finland
15.30 - 16.00
Presentation: Dr Mairéad O Driscoll, Chief Executive, Health Research Board
HRB Strategy 2021-2025: general overview
16.00 - 16.10
Break
16.10 - 16.40
Presentations: The importance of engagement to advance the HRB strategic agenda
- Dr Anne Cody, Investigator-led Grants, Research Careers and Enablers, Health Research Board
Funding for researchers and teams – the plan so far
- Dr Maura Hiney, Targeted Programmes, International Cooperation and Evaluation, Health Research Board
Targeted initiatives to guide health and social care decision making
- Dr Teresa Maguire, Director of Research Strategy and Funding, Health Research Board
Advancing a strategic agenda for health research and data infrastructures
16.40 - 17.10
HRB Strategy discussion and Q&A
Moderator: Dr Muiris Houston, Medical Writer (Medical Independent, Irish Times), Occupational Medicine Specialist
17.10 - 17.15
Closing remarks: Dr Mairéad O Driscoll, Chief Executive, Health Research Board
Friday 12 February 9.00 - 11.15
Session B | Futureproofing health research
This session drew upon learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic to address various ways in which researchers can futureproof research projects and grants for unanticipated challenges or events.
9.00 - 9.05
Opening and welcome back: Dr Mairéad O Driscoll, Chief Executive, Health Research Board
9.05 - 9.25
HRB Impact Award
Who won? And a chat about what they’ve done to deserve it
9.25 - 9.50
Keynote: Professor Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
A journal of the plague year: reflections on health research in a pandemic
9.50 - 10.00
Break
10.00 - 10.20
Presentation: Dr Teresa Maguire, Director of Research Strategy and Funding, Health Research Board
COVID-19: reflections from a national funder’s perspective
10.20 - 10.40
Presentations: Adapting research during the pandemic – researcher solutions
- Dr Sara Burke, Research Assistant Professor of Health Policy, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin
'Living the LIFE' - shifting the focus from the regions to the COVID-19 health system response - co-
producing evidence to inform Sláintecare’s implementation
- Professor Fionnuala Breathnach, Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Overcoming the challenges of running a randomized drug trial in pregnancy during the Covid-19
pandemic
10.40 - 11.10
COVID 19 panel discussion and Q&A
Moderator: Ian Brunswick, Head of strategic Academic Engagement, Science Gallery Dublin
11.10 - 11.15
Closing remarks: Dr Mairéad O’Driscoll, Chief Executive, Health Research Board