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Email: katarzyna.gajewska@ucc.ie

Kate is a Lecturer in Epidemiology and Public Health in RCSI: 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Postgraduate Researcher in the School of Public Health, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork. She is involved in the EPICC project led by prof. Patricia Kearney as a Knowledge Broker. In 2020 Kate has been awarded a PhD degree for thesis: 鈥淎ccessing insulin pump therapy by adults with type 1 diabetes in Ireland: A multiphase mixed methods study鈥� conducted as part of the HRB SPHeRE Programme. Her disseminations include papers investigating type 1 diabetes and its ; ;  in Irish diabetes clinics; and  this technology in Ireland. Her research interest in diabetes brought her to join the HSE National Clinical Program in Diabetes working group.

Prior to conducting her PhD, Kate worked as a research data manager in Our Lady鈥檚 Children鈥檚 Hospital, Crumlin, in Dublin, and as a psychologist and diabetes educator in an outpatient diabetes clinic in Warsaw, Poland. She completed MSc in Clinical Psychology in 2010, and received a Postgraduate Award in Mixed Methods for Health Services Research. Kate鈥檚 research interests include diabetes, mainly type 1 diabetes, it鈥檚 epidemiology, determinants of (barriers and facilitators to) access to technology in diabetes care, health and well-being of people with chronic illnesses, as well as health-services research and its role in improving health, outcomes and quality of care. She is the author of peer-reviewed publications, educational materials, she presents as a speaker at international and national conferences, and actively engage in patient advocacy and scientific organizations (i.e. ISPAD, EASD, PSI).