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📌 The HRB will cease posting on X on Friday 30 January. You can continue to follow our progress on LinkedIn: bit.ly/hrb-linkedin and YouTube: bit.ly/hrb-youtube
CEO Gráinne Gorman traces the evolution of the HRB from modest beginnings to a State agency with an annual budget of over €60m, supporting the production of data and evidence to shape policy and deliver improved health outcomes.
🔗See bit.ly/3Zpkjef
🧠Curious about how #healthresearch changes lives? Read our new edition of Health Research in Action featuring:
🚀 22 inspiring success stories from HRB and HRB-funded projects
📊 A snapshot of HRB's impact in 2024
🔗Find it here⬇️
hrb.ie/publication/health-re…
🚨Reminder! Applications for HRB's Research in-Practice Fellowships for Health & Social Care Practitioners 2026 are closing soon.
📌Funding: Research-related costs up €80k & pro rata salary-related fellow costs up to 0.5 FTE
🗓️Closes: 13 Feb
ℹ️More info: bit.ly/3NrxfOd
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The @hrbireland has published the latest edition of Health Research in Action.
One of the researchers featured is Dr Caitriona Cahir, senior lecturer, @RCSI_PopHealth, who was the lead researcher on a project looking to better understand the scope & nature of medication-related harm among older adults in Ireland.
hrb.ie/hrb/hrb-publishes-hea…
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Funding is open to all women’s health research proposals. Apply before 27 March 2026. Full details at hrb.ie/funding-scheme/applie…
🚀The HRB has published this year's Health Research in Action. It highlights the far-reaching, real-world impact of HRB & HRB-funded health & social care research, including:
📌22 success stories
📌A snapshot of HRB achievements in 2024
Read more here ➡️ hrb.ie/hrb/hrb-publishes-hea…
📢HRB's Applied Partnership Awards - Women's Health 2026 call for proposals is now open.
📌Funding for up to 10 #womenshealth research projects at €200,000 each
📌Closing date 27 March 2026
ℹ️Call details including guidance notes, FAQs and more➡️hrb.ie/funding-scheme/Applie…
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Starting soon! The @TrialsGalway 'Trialist Lunch and Learn' series delivered in collaboration with @hrbtmrn and @DiabetesCTN
CPD accredited, the series addresses key aspects of clinical trial leadership and development.
Registration and info: tinyurl.com/4yszvzn3
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🔓#OpenResearch doesn’t have to be complicated.
Discover the importance of open practices on HRB Open Research, and what sets us apart from other Open Access platforms: spr.ly/6014CUcje
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Reproducibility is the cornerstone of robust, trustworthy research. Yet not all research is reproducible because authors haven’t shared the software they used.
#SoftwareToolArticles tackle this problem.
Read our blog to learn more: spr.ly/6013CUQz7
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Want to learn about Core Outcome Sets?
Sign up for our workshop on Core Outcome Set development, with @KatieRobinsonOT, @valeriesmithUCD & @LindaBiesty, for PhD/postgrad students & health researchers.
Register: hrb-tmrn.ie/training-educati…
Date: 21 Jan
Venue: Merrion Square, Dublin 2
Great to see this kicking off!
We’re starting work with @uniofgalway to co-design ways to support young adults to take part in #DiabeticRetinaScreen.
Thanks to @hrbireland funding, this 2-year project will look at what would make it easier for those aged 18-25 to #choosescreening.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4fhkdby5
ALT Promotional graphic announcing a “New research project.” The main message reads: “Supporting young adults to take part in free diabetic eye screening.” The design features curved orange and blue shapes on a white background. The HSE logo is in the top left corner and the Diabetic RetinaScreen logo is in the top right corner.
Happy New Year to all our colleagues. And as we mark 40 years of HRB in 2026, our CEO Dr Gráinne Gorman reflects on four decades of progress powered by research, collaboration and innovation in @eolasmagazine: bit.ly/49p0poo
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📌 Don’t miss the #HorizonEU Info Days 2026!
🔹Cluster 4 – Digital, Industry & Space
📅29–30 January
🔹Cluster 1 – Health
📅10 February
Learn more:
🔗Cluster 4 Digital, Industry & Space: link.europa.eu/GCKfMW
🔗Cluster 1 Health: link.europa.eu/TJPwV6
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Two RCSI researchers have secured over €400K through the @hrbireland Applied Partnership Awards.
Their projects focus on strengthening paramedic mental health training and developing mental health supports for children with disabilities.
hrb.ie/hrb/minister-for-ment…
#RCSIdiscover
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👏👏Congratulations to Prof. Sinead McGilloway @ProfMcGilloway and Colleagues on leading the first all-island mental health research network. Funded by the @hrbireland and launched today.
@MaynoothUni #mentalhealthresearch #MentalHealth
Read more:
maynoothuniversity.ie/psycho…
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Minister Mary Butler has today announced a €3 million investment in mental health research to advance understanding in areas such as youth mental health, ADHD in adults, women’s mental health, and loneliness in older people. gov.ie/en/department-of-heal…
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The latest issue of our newsletter is now available hrb.newsweaver.ie/Drugslibra…
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The HRB-TMRN along with @ICCCTN are hosting our first in-person IDMC Workshop at the @MoLI_Museum in Dublin on 3rd Feb led by @SharonClintrial & @lcgeorge13 (@MRCCTU) with @nichol_alistair (UCD), @decdevane (UoG) & @john_norrie (QUB). To register, go to eventbrite.ie/e/independent-…
