Research

HEPAC seeks to conduct research that informs health policy and healthcare practice through the generation of evidence on health technologies and health, social and community care interventions that target individuals, their families and friends, and wider society across the lifecourse. Evidence generated from economic evaluation methods is increasingly relevant for informing health technology assessment processes, reimbursement and market access, and resource allocation decision-making nationally and internationally.

HEPAC's methodological interests and expertise includes the following techniques:

• Health Technology Assessment
• Economic Evaluation based on Randomised Controlled Trials
• Economic Evaluation based on Decision Analytic Models
• Early Health Economic Appraisal
• Evidence Synthesis Methods for Economic Evaluation
• Budget Impact Analysis
• Costing and Cost Analysis
• Discrete Choice Experiments
• Time Trade Off Experiments
• Contingent Valuation Experiments

HEPAC's current research portfolio of projects includes:

Health Economic Analysis of Medical Device Technologies:

CÚRAM, Research Ireland Centre for Medical Devices - 'Health Economic Methods for New and Innovative Medical Device Technologies' (Principal Investigator: Professor Abhay Pandit)

EU MedTrain+ Marie Skłodowksa-Curie Fellowship Programme Project  – ‘Precision medicine methods for the economic evaluation of medical devices’. (Researcher: Dr David Glynn; Principal Investigator – Professor Abhay Pandit)

Health Research Board Collaborative Doctoral Awards:

Diabetic Foot Disease: from PRevention to treatment to IMproved patient Outcomes (DFD PRIMO) (Principal Investigator: Professor Timothy OBrien)

iPASTAR-Improving Pathways for Acute STroke And Rehabilitation(Principal Investigator: Professor David Williams)

Health Research Board Clinical Trial Networks:

National Clinical Trial Network in Diabetes (Principal Investigator: Professor Fidelma Dunne)

National Primary Care Clinical Trial Network (Principal Investigator: Professor Andrew Murphy)

Health Economics and Evidence Synthesis

Health Research Board Evidence Synthesis Ireland Programme (Principal Investigator – Professor Declan Devane)

Health Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment Projects:

Health Research Board funded trial - Examining the effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness, of a Work and Cancer self-management programme to support women with breast cancer to return to work (Principal Investigator: Professor Deirdre Connolly, Trinity College Dublin)

Health Research Board funded trial - Medicines and SocIal Prescribing to aDdress pAtient priorities in multimorbidity (MIDAS): A multi-arm definitive cluster randomised trial in Irish general practice (Principal Investigator: Professor Susan Smith, Trinity College Dublin)

Health Research Board funded trial -The D1 Now intervention to improve outcomes in young adults living with type 1 diabetes: A definitive cluster randomised controlled trial (Principal Investigator: Professor Sean Dinneen, University of Galway)

Health Research Board funded trial -SalT supplementation in Older adults with Orthostatic intolerance Disorders (STOOD): a phase IIa randomised controlled trial of sodium supplementation in those consuming moderate salt intake (Principal Investigator: Professor Andrew Smyth, University of Galway)

Health Research Board funded trial - Community Risk-Based Monitoring for Atrial Fibrillation Trial (RBEAT) (Principal Investigator: Professor Martin O'Donnell, University of Galway)

EU Joint Transnational Innovate to Prevent: Personalised Prevention in Health and Care Services Project – ‘DATA ENABLED, SHARED FLUID MANAGEMENT PLATFORM IN HAEMODIALYSIS’ (Principal Investigator – Professor Matt Griffin, Dr David Keane, University of Galway) 

Health Research Board Evidence for Policy (EfP) Project - “Informing National Policy for physical activity based secondary prevention of stroke in IREland (INsPIRE)” (Principal Investigator – Professor Susan Smith, Trinity College Dublin)