Health Research Board invests €5.7m

The Health Research Board has invested €5.7m in research teams whose findings will inform decision-making in the key areas of suicide prevention, safe prescribing, dementia care, and team leadership in the health services.

Along with the four HRB research leader posts, the grants will support more than 15 research personnel to underpin the various work programmes.

In the suicide prevention sphere, Professor Ella Arensman of University College Cork and the National Suicide Research Foundation has been appointed research leader. The sector has been awarded €1.4m over five years. The HRB said the programme will improve the care provided in hospitals for people who engage in self-harm, with the ultimate goal to reduce repeated self-harm and suicide nationally.