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is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health, and Lead Investigator of the CUSTOMISE project. Her primary areas of interest are implementation science, quality improvement and chronic disease management.
joined the CUSTOMISE project as a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in 2024. Ana's research within CUSTOMISE is focused on understanding the process of tailoring implementation strategies in health care settings. Before joining the HIRH, Ana worked at the National Suicide Research Foundation on the EU-funded project 'MENTBEST: Protecting mental health in times of change' and at the UCC School of Public Health on the EU Joint Action 'Best-ReMaP: Healthy food for a healthy future'. Ana's research interests include public health policy for disease prevention, food systems and food security, decision making, and implementation science. You can find Ana on .
Dr Monica O鈥橫ullane is a Research Fellow in the School of Public Health, UCC. She is PI on the HRB funded HIA-IM (Developing a Health Impact Assessment Implementation Model: Enhancing Intersectoral Approaches in Tackling health Inequalities) project, co-hosted in UCC between the School of Public Health and ISS21. Monica鈥檚 research interests include enhancing intersectoral approaches for health improvement, with most of her work in this area focused on the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) approach. Other research interests include knowledge use in policy development, gender equality institutionalisation and action research and participatory research methods in interdisciplinary research studies. You can read more about Monica鈥檚 research here: .
Laura-Jane McCarthy is a HRB funded PhD student. She graduated from 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork with a BSc General Nursing (Hons) in 2008 and is a registered general nurse. She more recently graduated with a First-Class Hons Master of Public Health. Her master鈥檚 thesis was entitled 鈥淓xperiences of Menstrual Health and Hygiene in Humanitarian Emergencies: a qualitative systematic review鈥. Laura-Jane has a strong interest in women鈥檚 health, global health equity and implementation science. She worked as a Research Assistant on the CUSTOMISE project (Jan 2023-Oct 2023). During this post, Laura-Jane became increasingly interested in equitable implementation of evidence-based interventions in healthcare. To learn more about her research click here.
Our collaborators
Across our projects, the team have partnered with national and international collaborators including:
- Diabetes Ireland
- National Clinical Programme for Diabetes
- HRB Primary Care Clinical Trials Network Ireland
- Diabetes in General Practice (DIGP) Initiative
- Department of General Practice in UCC
- HRB Clinical Research Facility Cork
- Clinical and managerial representatives from the Integrated Falls Prevention Pathway.