Health Research Board: Health Research in Action

This year’s Health Research in Action highlights some of the many notable impacts and outcomes of our work. It includes a snapshot in numbers of recent work completed, followed by 19 success stories about wide-ranging health and social care research across four themes. The stories include HRB-funded projects about identifying bacteria linked to increased cancer-risk in the mouth, better care for recurrent miscarriage in Ireland, delivering better evidence for national clinical trial guidelines and leading the first major clinical trial for diabetes during pregnancy. Research conducted directly by HRB staff made many important contributions to national conversations around varied aspects of health policy, including the cost, safety, and environmental impact of reprocessing single-use medical devices, measuring the impact of Ireland’s mental health policy and informing public funding for best outcomes on Assisted Reproductive Technologies