We are recruiting a PhD candidate to join our team at the School of Public Health, University College Cork, to investigate the process and impact of tailoring implementation strategies to support evidence-based interventions in healthcare. 

Daire has started on an eight-week Trial Methodology Research Network Summer Scholarship.

Dr Sheena McHugh (Principal Investigator) and Dr Fiona Riordan (Co-investigator) have been awarded funding to conduct a project in partnership with Friendly Call Cork/Cork City Partnership.

Dr Sheena McHugh has been named as one of five new Research Leaders by the Health Research Board

Dr Susan Calnan presented findings from the APA Falls Project at the Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland (AUDGPI) Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) Joint Scientific Meeting which was held virtually on the 12^th and 13^th of March.  

The paper outlines how we retrospectively costed the development of the IDEAs intervention, a multifaceted intervention in primary care to improve attendance at diabetic retinopathy screening. 

The Irish Implementation Science Training Institute 2022, is a training course in implementation science, hosted by the newly formed Health Implementation Research Hub at the School of Public Health, University College Cork.

The research note outlines the acceptability and feasibility of study procedures used as part of the IDEAs cluster randomised pilot trial of an intervention in primary care to improve uptake of Ireland’s national diabetic retinopathy programme. 

Michelle McNamara is a PhD student on CUSTOMISE (Comparing and Understanding Tailoring Methods for Implementation Strategies) funded by the HRB Research Leader Award. She is also a student on the four-year HRB SPHeRE programme (Structured Population Health and Health-services Research Education).

Eimear will work with the team on an update of the Cochrane review Tailored interventions to address determinants of practice. During her 12-month fellowship Eimear will be co-mentored by Dr Sheena McHugh (UCC) Lead Investigator of HIRH and Professor Luke Wolfenden Professor and NHMRC Investigator Fellow based in the University of Newcastle, Australia.

The paper outlines how we explored the acceptability and feasibility of the study procedures used in a cluster randomised pilot trial of an intervention in primary care to improve uptake of Ireland’s national diabetic retinopathy programme. 

The paper outlines how we investigated the feasibility and preliminary effects of an intervention to improve uptake of Ireland’s national diabetic retinopathy programme, Diabetic RetinaScreen, among patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.