- Read more: Decision-making regarding transitions to residential care for people with intellectual disabilities
People with intellectual disabilities are living longer often with ageing family caregivers. As needs increase and community services remain limited, families face pressure that can lead to emergency residential placements. This policy brief examines the experiences of people with intellectual disabilities and their family caregivers as they seek residential care in Ireland and makes policy…
- Read more: What gets measured gets funded: are standard evaluation frameworks failing community development work in Ireland?
When community development work struggles to evidence impact, the problem often lies not with the work itself, but with evaluation frameworks designed to measure the wrong things. Through the lens of a long-standing community health project with Travellers, this paper argues for a fundamental shift: recognising that relationships are not a soft feature of this…
- Read more: Online Safety Policy in Ireland: A Public Health Perspective
Are social media bans the answer? This article explores a public health approach to online safety combining effective regulation, safer platforms, digital skills, community action and a focus on inequality.
- Read more: Addressing Adolescent Mental Health in Ireland
This policy brief presents findings from surveys of more than 20,000 adolescents across Ireland that tracked changes in mental health between 2018 and 2023. Policy implications are discussed for the education and health sectors
- Read more: An Update on Ireland’s Efforts to Combat Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Introduction Domestic, sexual and gender-based violence (DSGBV) is a pervasive international issue and gross violation of human rights. DSGBV is defined as violence inflicted upon a person because of their gender or a group that is disproportionally affected because of their gender (European Commission, n.d.-b). In addition to economic violence, actions can include: “domestic violence…
- Read more: Menstrual Pain – Current Gaps in Irish Policy Leaving Many Menstruators Behind
Menstrual pain is a common, debilitating, yet under-managed public health issue across Ireland. Addressing menstrual pain requires policy initiatives to dismantle menstrual stigma in all aspects of public life, to reform current education in schools and universities, and to represent the multiple complex conditions that can cause this painful and limiting experience.
- Read more: Antimicrobial resistance in Ireland: Aligning action across a One Health system
This paper examines antimicrobial resistance from a systems perspective with a particular focus on work in Ireland. It highlights some of the key systemic challenges that are inherent in tackling antimicrobial resistance and suggests strategies for addressing these challenges effectively.
- Read more: Projections of HSE Primary and Community Care Workforce Requirements to 2040
This research projects that up to 3,300 additional frontline primary and community care staff may be needed by 2040 to meet growing demand, particularly in services supporting older people living in the community.
- Read more: Integrating Place-Based and Community-Led Approaches into Ireland’s Public Health System
While Ireland’s public health system has made significant progress, this report argues that further gains will be limited unless there is a deliberate shift towards more place‑based and genuinely community‑led (PBCL) approaches.
- Read more: No Digital Omnibus! Why Europe Owes LMICs the Ethical Regulation of Generative AI in Healthcare
This paper argues that the EU’s recent digital and AI regulations could work as a multilateralist spine to unlock the potential of generative AI safely and ethically. However, the authors argue that Europe’s recent proposal of a ‘Digital Omnibus’ package may eradicate the so-called ‘Brussels effect’, and they urge the EU to carefully consider the…
