🚨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
🚀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 ➡️ bit.ly/4jXgiav
📢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➡️ bit.ly/4jG3OE0
📣Minister for Mental Health Mary Butler has announced €3M for #mentalhealthresearch. HRB will award €1M to @maynoothuniversity.ie to establish a Collaborative Research Network in #MentalHealth & €2M to support 10 new mental health research projects. Read more: www.hrb.ie/hrb/minister...
Wishing everyone a very happy Christmas and New Year from the HRB🎄
Our offices will close at 1pm on Wednesday 24 December and reopen on Friday 2nd January.
📣Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has announced €2M for women's health research. HRB will launch a new call for up to 10 #womenshealth research projects through its Applied Partnership Awards.
🗓️Call opens 16 Jan
📌Budget €200,000 each
ℹ️Read more▶️ bit.ly/45gtr8l
The HRB’s Evidence for Policy initiative strengthens Evidence-Informed Decision-Making by promoting mutual understanding between researchers and policy-makers. Gillian Markey, HRB Communications Manager, looks back on the initiative launched earlier this year.
Read more ➡️ www.hrb.ie/blog/spotlig...
🚨Reminder! Applications for HRB's Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellowships Programme 2026 are now open.
🔬 Up to €950K in direct costs per grant
👥 Team-based funding model
🗓️ Closing: 17 December
ℹ️More info & to apply bit.ly/49Bg1H6
#HealthResearch #PostdocFunding
The EU is tightening port security to fight drug trafficking. Ciara Guiney looks more closely at the measures in a blog based on her detailed report in #Drugnet
More: tinyurl.com/yffcyw94
Latest Drugnet: lnkd.in/eSSGnFFZ
🚨Reminder! #EU4Health call for proposals to promote healthy living and prevent non-communicable diseases now open.
🔗Call details: hadea.ec.europa.eu/calls-propos...
🗓️Deadline: 6 January 2026
💶 Budget: €2 million
Leading up to the HRB National Conference on Dec 03, we’re sharing expert tips on connecting research to policy. See Jonathan Drennan, of
@ucddublin
here.
Limited conference spaces available.
Register: tinyurl.com/37e9f953
Leading up to the HRB National Conference on Dec 23, we’re sharing expert tips on connecting research to policy. See Jonathan Drennan, of UCD here.
Limited conference spaces available.
Register: tinyurl.com/37e9f953
Discover how initiatives like Safe Futures, Parents Under Pressure, and the Infant Parent Support Project are shaping responses to drug-related challenges in Ireland, in the current edition of #DrugnetIreland.
See: bit.ly/4oA8dt
@EUDrugsAgency
#EarlyIntervention #YouthSupport
Prof Kathryn Oliver shares insights from her role as knowledge broker within the UK government. Here she explains the Areas of Research Interest concept, which formalises linkages between policy-makers and researchers.
See: www.hrb.ie/blog/read-th...
From the DRIVE launch to cocaine-related harms and psychiatric admissions, the new edition of #DrugnetIreland brings you the latest data on Ireland’s drug landscape. This edition includes a special supplement on drug use prevalence.
See: tinyurl.com/mpfsvmvu
Gabapentinoids are now Ireland’s fastest-rising drug misuse threat, with fatalities increasing by 35% annually. Sean Millar explores this trend in his blog, based on a more detailed report in the latest edition of #Drugnet.
See: tinyurl.com/338jzf7y
New #DrugnetIreland out now! Explore research on etizolam-related deaths, prescribable drug misuse, and non-fatal opioid overdoses. Also featuring a special supplement on drug use prevalence in Ireland.
See: bit.ly/4oA8dt
#HRBevidenceforpolicy #PublicHealth
Registration is open for our next #HRBEvidenceforPolicy webinar.
This event will feature presentations from, Dr Deirdre Mongan, HRB Research Officer and Dr Margaret Brennan, TCD.
📅 30 October, 13.00
For more information and to register www.hrb.ie/event/webina...
New #DrugnetIreland out now! Explore research on etizolam-related deaths, prescribable drug misuse, and non-fatal opioid overdoses. Also featuring a special supplement on drug use prevalence in Ireland. See: bit.ly/4oA8dt
#HRBevidenceforpolicy #PublicHealth
Dr Deirdre Mongan looks back on the recent #HRBEvidenceforPolicy webinar where she presented on the links between childhood adversity and substance use in young adulthood. See blog www.hrb.ie/blog/explori...
Registration now open for the next in this series of webinars www.hrb.ie/event/webina...
📢 New EP PerMed Call 📢
EP PerMed's 2026 Research, Innovation & Technology Call, 'Test and Demonstration of Multimodal Data Approaches for Personalised Medicine' is now open.
🖥️Register for the online info day on 28 October➡️ bit.ly/48Dk7Oy
ℹ️ bit.ly/4o5JDAY
New Drugnet Ireland out now! This edition dives into Ireland’s national drugs strategy evaluation, the re-established Oireachtas Committee on Drug Use, and new insights into adolescent cannabis use.
See: tinyurl.com/mpfsvmvu
@EUDrugsAgency
#HRBevidenceforpolicy #Drugnet #DrugPolicy
Dr Jane Murphy, co-author of the recent HRB report into gaps in women’s health research across the OECD, says input from clinicians and patients is needed to address these deficiencies.
Watch/listen on the HRB Evidence for Policy page: tinyurl.com/3hzwc4yy
#womenshealth
A new HRB report, Effectiveness, safety, and cost-effectiveness of pharmacist prescribing, examines pharmacists prescribing compared with other prescribing healthcare professionals.
Press release and link to full report www.hrb.ie/hrb/hrb-repo...
Studies reporting the sex and gender of participants helps build better evidence, Dr Claire O'Connell, presenter of the Health Research Podcast says in discussion about gaps in women's health research.
Watch/Listen: tinyurl.com/3hzwc4yy
#womenshealth #evidenceforpolicy
'Where there are gaps in evidence, there are gaps in care.' Dr Linda Biesty tells the Health Research Podcast that the HRB’s OECD-wide review of women’s health research highlights real-world impacts. Watch/Listen: tinyurl.com/3hzwc4yy
#womenshealth #evidenceforpolicy
Women are less included in trials, and female-specific outcomes are under-reported, says Dr Susan Smith, Professor of General Practice at Trinity College Dublin on the Health Research Podcast. @Watch/listen on the HRB #evidenceforpolicy page: tinyurl.com/3hzwc4yy
#womenshealth
There are substantial gaps in research of female health conditions, Dr Jane Murphy co-author of a review of women’s health research across the OECD, tells the Health Research Podcast.
Watch/listen: tinyurl.com/3hzwc4yy
#womenshealth #evidenceforpolicy
🚀Don't miss this year's National #PPI festival taking place across October. Full details with calendar of events below⬇️
📢HRB welcomes the awarding of more than €1 billion in Horizon Europe funding to researchers in Ireland since 2021. Nearly €100 million - 9.75% - went to Health. As part of the Horizon Europe National Health Team, HRB had a central role in securing this investment.
More➡️ bit.ly/4pKcls9
