By Jack Nash
01 March 2022
Four years ago, the Health Research Board (HRB) launched its innovative publishing platform – HRB Open Research. In this blog, we share some of its highlights and trends from the past year and our thoughts on the importance of making research openly available.
By Jack Nash
07 February 2022
In this blog, we look back on HRB Open Research’s most read articles of 2021.
By Guest Author
24 November 2021
Age is not an accurate indicator of the health of older adults. It also doesn’t tell us much about an individual’s healthcare needs. Aisling O’Halloran and Roman Romero-Ortuno, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, discuss frailty. Improving our understanding of its effect on the health of older adults will lead to fairer allocation of health and social care in Ireland.
By Guest Author
10 November 2021
Embedded patient researchers can amplify the patient voice to transform research and healthcare. In this blog, patient researcher Robert Joyce talks about his involvement with a trial at National University of Ireland, Galway. Thanks to Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) the trail design was changed to better fit the needs of people living with multiple sclerosis.
By Guest Author
07 September 2021
A team from National University of Ireland Galway published an Open Letter discussing iHealthFacts. In this blog post, first author, Marina Zaki, tells us how iHealthFacts.ie can help people check the reliability of health claims and make well-informed decisions about their own health.
By Guest Author
17 August 2021
For far too long, people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) have been routinely dismissed, ignored, or misdiagnosed by the medical profession. A new Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) driven research study, published on HRB Open Research, led by John Cullinan, Orla Ní Chomhraí, and Tom Kindlon sheds light on how this can impact those living with ME and their carers. It also has important implications for how we treat long COVID-19 patients.
By Guest Author
27 July 2021
A team of researchers from University College Dublin (UCD) are exploring how the human animal bond impacts children’s wellbeing in a children’s hospital. The Principal Investigator of this PhD study is Rachel Howe.
In this blog post, Rachel tell us more about AAI, the potential benefits of therapy animals for children and parents, and discusses the UCD group’s research project to determine where and why animal interventions take place.
By Guest Author
14 July 2021
In this post, Kate Frazer from University College Dublin, Ireland, shares how the HRB and their fellowships have helped transform her research career and tells us about her understanding of smoking behaviour and efforts to help stop smoking. Read the blog post to learn more about the project and why public and patient involvement is playing a pivotal role.