Thursday 11th February 15:00 - 17:15
This session will introduce attendees to the new five-year HRB Strategy, taking an in-depth look at several key areas of focus over the next five years.
Session A | HRB Strategy 2021-2025: Health research – making an impact
3:00pm – 3:05pm
Opening & Welcome: Dr Mairéad O Driscoll, Chief Executive, Health Research Board
3:05pm – 3:30pm
Keynote Presentation: Dr Liisa-Maria Voipio-Pulkki, Director General of Strategic Affairs and Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
Data in the service of people's health and wellbeing - case study Finland
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Presentation: Dr Mairéad O Driscoll, Chief Executive, Health Research Board
HRB Strategy 2021-2025: general overview
4:00pm – 4:10pm
Break
4:10pm – 4:40pm
Presentations: The importance of engagement to advance the HRB strategic agenda
- Dr Anne Cody, Investigator-led Grants, Research Careers and Enablers, Health Research Board
Funding for researchers and teams – the plan so far
- Dr Maura Hiney, Targeted Programmes, International Cooperation and Evaluation, Health Research Board
Targeted initiatives to guide health and social care decision making
- Dr Teresa Maguire, Director of Research Strategy and Funding, Health Research Board
Advancing a strategic agenda for health research and data infrastructures
4:40pm – 5:10pm
HRB Strategy discussion and Q&A
Moderator: Dr Muiris Houston, Medical Writer (Medical Independent, Irish Times), Occupational Medicine Specialist
5:10 – 5.15pm
Closing Remarks: Dr Mairéad O Driscoll, Chief Executive, Health Research Board
Friday 12th February 9:00 - 11:15
This session will draw upon learnings from the Covid-19 pandemic to address various ways in which researchers can futureproof research projects and granta for unanticipated challenges and events.
Session B | Futureproofing Health Research
9:00am – 9:05am
Opening & Welcome back: Dr Mairéad O Driscoll, Chief Executive, Health Research Board
9:05am – 9:25am
HRB Impact Award
Who won? And a chat about what they’ve done to deserve it
9:25am – 9:50am
Keynote: Professor Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
A journal of the plague year: reflections on health research in a pandemic
9:50am – 10:00am
Break
10:00am – 10:20am
Presentation: Dr Teresa Maguire, Director of Research Strategy and Funding, Health Research Board
COVID-19: reflections from a national funder’s perspective
10:20am – 10:40am
Presentations: Adapting research during the pandemic – researcher solutions
- Dr Sara Burke, Research Assistant Professor of Health Policy, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin
'Living the LIFE' - shifting the focus from the regions to the COVID-19 health system response - co-producing evidence to inform Sláintecare’s implementation
- Professor Fionnuala Breathnach, Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Overcoming the challenges of running a randomized drug trial in pregnancy during the Covid-19
pandemic
10:40am – 11:10am
COVID 19 panel discussion and Q&A
Moderator: Ian Brunswick, Head of strategic Academic Engagement, Science Gallery Dublin
11:10am - 11:15am
Closing remarks: Dr Mairéad O’Driscoll, Chief Executive, Health Research Board