Team
This project is part of an Applied Partnership Award, co-funded by the Health Research Board (HRB) and the Health Service Executive (HSE) Health and Wellbeing Division. Dr Grace O’Malley is the research lead, while Sarah O’Brien is the knowledge user lead.
There are also two researchers employed on the project, and a multi-stakeholder steering committee.
The Project Team
Dr Grace O’Malley
Lead: Researcher (Principal Investigator)
Sarah O’Brien
Lead: Knowledge User, HSE
Dr Desire Naigaga
Post-doctoral Researcher
Maram Sofiany
MB, BCh BAO (NUI, RCSI) LRCP&SI
Research Assistant
Dr Aisling Walsh
Mixed Methods Research
Collaborators
Dr Maeve O’Brien
Postdoctoral Researcher
Communication Toolkit Project
Lois McCrea
CHI Child and Adolescent Obesity Service
Obesity Research & Care Group
Niamh Arthurs
Researcher
Dr Louise Tully
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr Mohammad Almulla
Clinical Researcher
Oluwatofunmi Oluwajuyigbe
Medical student
Student researcher
Dr Farzana Ferdous
Nutrition Epidemiologist
Steering Committee
Bernadette Keenan
Public Patient Involvement Representative
Dr Jean O’Connell
Endocrinology
Fiona Ward
Dietetics
Karen Gaynor
Policy, Dietetics
Mary O’Malley
Public Health Nursing
Professor Clodagh O’Gorman
Paediatric Medicine
Professor Louise Baur
Paediatric Medicine, Research
Dr Susan Smith
Medicine, Primary Care
Sven Schubert
PPI Representative
Prof Donal O’ Shea
MB, BCh, BAO, MD, FRCPI, FRCP