Population Health Research

Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC): A World Health Organisation Collaborative Cross-National Study
Survey of Lifestyles, Attitudes and Nutrition
Galway Healthy City - Mapping Galway's Health Profile
Translating the Health Behaviour of School-Age Children (HBSC) Study into Policy and Practice.
Ulysses - Bullying Among Schoolchildren with Disabilities.
Participatory Research Process (PRP).
Investigating Food Poverty Among Schoolchildren in Ireland
Health & Well-being in Middle Childhood
An Analysis of Work-life Balance, Employee Stress & Health in the Irish University Sector.

Programme Development and Evaluation

Evaluation of Zippy's Friends, An Emotional Well-Being Programme for Children in Primary School.
Evaluation of the 'Choose Safety' Health Promotion Programme.
Evaluation of the Mindout Programme in an Out-of-Schools Setting.
Healthy Together.
Scoping Research for the Development of Internet-Based Health Promotion Materials.
Healthy Eating & Physical Activity in Schools.

Health Services Research

Research into the Optimal Setting for Chlamydia Screening in Ireland.
Exploration of Risk Communication in Relation to Cryptosporidium Contamination of  the Public Water Supply.
Infant Feeding  Development of an Annotated Bibliography.

Policy Research

Development Education Research (DERN).
Best Practice in Promoting Mental Health in Socially Marginalised People in Europe (PROMO).
Development of a Data Strategy for Children in Ireland.
Connecting Health Research in Africa & Ireland Consortium (CHRAIC).
Benchmarking Implementation of the Bangkok Charter (WHO, 2005).
Toward International Collaboration on Competencies & Accreditation in Health Promotion & Health Education: The Galway Consensus Document.
Training and Accreditation in Health Promotion in Europe Including Professional Standards and Competencies.
Substance Use in New Communities in the West of Ireland.
Ethical Review & Children's Research.

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Prof Margaret M. Barry

Professor
T 353 (0)91 493348
E margaret.barry@nuigalway.ie
Research interests: Mental health promotion; evidence-based practice and evaluation research in health promotion; public perceptions of mental health and health inequalities; community mental health and cross border initiatives; capacity building and health promotion competencies.

Dr Saoirse Nic Gabhain

Director
T 353 (0)91 493093
E saoirse.nicgabhainn@nuigalway.ie
Research interests: School health promotion; health and health behaviour in childhood and adolescence; women's health; methodologies for health promotion research.

Dr Margaret P. Hodgins

Project Leader
T 353 (0)91 493349
E margaret.hodgins@nuigalway.ie
Research interests: Workplace health promotion; workplace bullying; healthy ageing; health promotion in the travelling community; the health promoting university.

Dr Diarmuid O' Donovan

Project Leader
T 353 (0)91 493923
E diarmuid.odonovan@nuigalway.ie
Research interests: Equity in health; health policy; communicable disease control and environmental health; reproductive, maternal and child health; sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS; health and human rights; global health and development.

Dr Jane Sixsmith

Project Leader
T 353 (0)91 493466
E jane.sixsmith@nuigalway.ie
Research interests: Health and the media; community health; qualitative methods; health services research.

Dr Claire Connolly

Lecturer
T 353 (0)91 493828
E claire.connolly@nuigalway.ie
Research interests: Breastfeeding; communication skills of health professionals; experience of hospitalisation; childhood immunisation; teaching methods and assessment.

Dr Barbara L. Griffin

University Teacher
T 353 (0)91 494038
E barbara.griffin@nuigalway.ie
Research interests: Health promotion in social care; health promotion evaluation; visual sociology; participation research in communities.

Victoria Hogan

Lecturer
T 353 (0)91 493465
E victoria.hogan@nuigalway.ie
Research interests: Work related stress; work life balance; occupational health psychology; quality of working life.

Verna McKenna

Lecturer
T 353 (0)91 493604
E verna.mckenna@nuigalway.ie
Research interests: Evidence in health promotion and influences on practice and policy; development of implementation guidance for health promotion practice; health service access and health inequalities.

Dr Michal Molcho

Lecturer
T 353 (0)91 493668
E miahael.molcho@nuigalway.ie
Research interest: Adolescents' health; youth violent behaviour; injury prevention; immigrant's health; food poverty.

Geraldine Nolan

Lecturer
T 353 (0)91 493645
E geraldine.nolan@nuigalway.ie
Research interests: Investigation of effective nutrition interventions across public health, and clinical settings; best practice for community nutrition and dietetic services in delivery of service or clients with eating disorders; nutrition needs of ethnic minorities; production of best practice guidelines in clinical setting.

Dr Martin Power

University Fellow
T 353 (0)91 492157
E martin.power@nuigalway.ie
Research interest: Risk and blood; epistemic communities; social policy; adult education.

Dr Lisa Pursell

Senior Researcher
T 353 (0)91 492044
E lisa.pursell@nuigalway.ie
Research interests: Health impact assessments processes and methodology; evaluation of impact assessments; development of indicators for measuring health inequalities.

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