We are delighted to present a new Blog written by the SPHeRE Scholar David Aluga David Aluga on his national placement titled 'Health Technology Management in Ireland: Learnings from a National Placement'. Read the enticing Blog here sphereprogramme.ie/health-technol…

Great day! Thanks Dr Danielle Pollock and Evidence Synthesis Ireland

"Eli Lilly and Company has provided sponsorship funding to support the event and have had no input into the organization or content of the event" Will pharma #COI in obesity be addressed in the #CDoH session? Or are we happy to look the other way there? #DisclosureIsNotEnough

What’s this little bird ⁦Ricky Whelan⁩ ⁦Martine🦋Brennan🍄⁩ ? Crashed into the window….

Aha! Thought it was finchy!

Yep!

The 'SHOW ME the evidence' features (preprint) is now available in English, French and Spanish - and will soon be available in Arabic, Chinese and Portuguese mcmasterforum.org/networks/evide… #GES2024

Well done Andrew Dullea -great to catch up!

Well done Irish College of GPs James Larkin Susan Smith Kieran Harkin !

Looking forward to representing ⁦iHealthFacts⁩ at #GES2024

Delighted to present on behalf of ⁦iHealthFacts⁩ at #GES2024 with ⁦⁦Global Commission on Evidence⁩ on using evidence to address societal challenges.

Congratulations to our Health Services Researcher, Andrew Dullea, who received honourable mention as runner-up for the best poster at #GES2024 for his poster on ‘Assigning GRADE levels in an overview of reviews using general principles identified from current GRADE guidelines’.

If you are a parliamentarian, you can help the IPU  shape the future use of scientific and  technological evidence  in parliament. Your voice matters! Please spend just 7 minutes on this key survey. Available in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish: surveymonkey.com/r/science_in_p…

Very strange that @NHS agreed to enter into an contract for supply, distribution and use of cholesterol-lowering inclisiran with drug company Novartis without any evidence of cardiovascular benefit. Excellent article by Margaret McCartney Deborah Cohen describes what happened.

Ahead of #WorldPatientSafetyDay, we have published the lessons learned from receipt of statutory notifications of accidental and unintended medical exposures to ionising radiation in 2023. Our analysis helps to clarify the causes and factors involved in these incidents.

Drug firms finance Europe’s patient groups to the tune of €110million. Why? Because patients then promote their drugs and “Patient groups are better marketing managers than pharma companies because they are seen as neutral or objective.” investigate-europe.eu/posts/deadly-p…

Our upcoming webinar on #COI might be of interest to your networks - please share if you can 🙏 SPHeRE HealthResearchBoard HSE Research & Development UCC School of Nursing & Midwifery 🌈 UCC Medicine & Health INFANT Centre UCC School of Public Health ISS21 Health Promotion at University of Galway x.com/Doc_Samantha/s…

Read more below about the new initiative announced at the UN Summit of The Future by Wellcome CEO John-Arne Røttingen wellcome.org/news/evidence-… #SoTF #SDGs #UNGA #SummitOfTheFuture

A massive congratulations to the 2024 Northern European champions! 🥇🏆 🇮🇪Ireland’s Women’s Team 🥇🏆 🇳🇴Norway’s Men’s Team 🥇🏆 🇮🇪Emma Slevin from Ireland - Women’s All-Around 🥇🏆🇫🇮Elias Koski from Finland - Men’s All-Around #NorthernEuropeans2024 #GymnasticsIreland

Found where the hens were laying….