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.
By Guest Author
22 June 2021
In this Q&A, Cathal Seoighe, the scientific director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in Genomics Data Science, explains why genomics and clinical genetics have fallen behind other countries and shares his recommendations for a national genomics health strategy, and how this could benefit patients and the public.
By Guest Author
27 May 2021
In this Q&A, Maria Kelly, an IT specialist working part-time with the National Cancer Registry in Cork and PhD student at the University of Limerick, discusses why utilizing health data is important for research purposes, as well as the challenges she faced when conducting her own research.
By Guest Author
30 April 2021
Catherine Darker, Associate Professor of Health Services Research at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, is leading a research project to explore the implications of COVID-19 on the public health jurisdictions of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. In this interview, Catherine tell us more about the project and their plans, as set out in their Study Protocol, published on HRB Open Research on creating a toolbox for public health messaging to guide decision makers in their approach to further waves of COVID-19 or for future epidemics.