Friday 22 May 2020 Our Clinical Psychologists, Leanna Fogarty and Dr Margaret O’ Rourke have identified a number of tools and resources to help you deal with any additional stresses in your lives. We will share [...]

Thursday 14 May 2020 New research led by Dr. Andrea Hemmingway, PI Prof Mairead Kiely, and the INFANT maternal and child nutrition team has been published in the British Journal of Nutrition. The study has reported [...]

Monday 11 May 2020 Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys, TD, today announced that twelve teams have been shortlisted to progress onto the next phase of the SFI Future Innovator Prize. Funded by the [...]

Friday 08 May 2020 This week is World Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week. The aim is to raise awareness of maternal mental health issues and to promote the help and support that is available for those who require [...]

Friday 01 May 2020 The team at INFANT would like to assure all of our community that we understand how challenging a situation we now find ourselves in. Our Clinical Psychologists, Leanna and Margaret have identified a number of tools [...]

Wednesday 22 April 2020 We are incredibly grateful for the donations we have received over the past few weeks in response to the virtual visitation technology we have implemented in Cork Univerity Maternity Hospital Neonatal Unit. [...]

Sunday 05 April 2020 The Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has issued new guidance on COVID-19 and maternity services. The guidance was written by INFANT Centre Principal Investigator Dr Keelin O’Donoghue and Joye McKernan, National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre. [...]

Saturday 04 April 2020 We have collaborated with our colleagues in Cork University Maternity Hospital to provide virtual visiting for babies in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The new initiative allows families to remotely check-in [...]

Thursday 02 April 2020 The INFANT Research Centre at University College Cork in collaboration with Cork University Maternity Hospital, Ireland South Women & Infants Directorate have introduced a secure video messaging platform called vCreate in the Neonatal Intensive [...]

Friday 20 March 2020 To celebrate Brain Awareness Week 2020 we asked our INFANT physchologists what a typical working day looks like for them. Meet Leanna - Clinical Neuropsychologist at INFANT Please describe your job: What [...]