INFANT Research Centre and The Cerebral Palsy Foundation are hosting a free educational Town Hall to share the latest updates and overall management of cerebral palsy with families.

The event is taking place on Saturday 23 March 2024 from 12.30pm-2pm in the Hayfield Manor Hotel, Cork and is open to parents and families of children with cerebral palsy.

Professor Deirdre Murray will present on how research leads to clinical changes which will be followed by a panel discussion with Professor Murray, Professor Geraldine Boylan and a Parent Advocate discussing cerebral palsy and the impacts of research in lived experience both from a researcher and parents perspective moderated by Rachel Byrne.

Meet our Experts!

• Professor Geraldine Boylan: Professor of Neonatal Physiology, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, University College Cork, Ireland and Director of the Irish Centre Maternal & Child Health Research – INFANT. She leads the Neonatal Brain Research Group at the INFANT centre – a multidisciplinary research team focused on neurological monitoring of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit, particularly for the early diagnosis of brain injury.

• Professor Deirdre Murray: A Consultant Paediatrician, Paediatric Research Lead at INFANT and Professor of Paediatrics, in UCC’s Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Deirdre’s research is focused on early brain injury and the development of new ways to predict and assess neurocognitive outcome in children. Professor Murray is the Chair of Early Brain Injury and Cerebral Palsy at UCC.

• Rachel Byrne: Executive Director at the Cerebral Palsy Foundation. She has been working in the field of paediatric rehabilitation and cerebral palsy research for the past 14+ years. Rachel has a background in physical therapy, with a particular interest in neuroplasticity and motor learning.

Interested in attending?, register here: https://cerebralpalsyfoundation.regfox.com/new-horizons-ireland-town-hall-3

If you have any questions, please contact infant@ucc.ie

📢And that’s a wrap on The European Academy of Paediatrics Congress 2022!

🎉A brilliant few days of sharing knowledge!

👏Well Done to everyone involved.

❤️We at INFANT are incredibly proud to be part of such a successful event.

👋Until next time!

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📣Check out this open letter by INFANT researcher @marita.hennessy

💡’Time for complete transparency about conflicts of interest in #publichealth nutrition research’

🔎https://hrbopenresearch.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/manuscripts/13973/a847bf6f-b14a-436d-954f-8f76c642b367_12894_-_marita_hennessy_v2.pdf

📣INFANT Seminar Series returns this Friday, September 9th at 12 pm

🗣Julie O’Donoghue will be speaking about United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Elizabeth completed her Bachelor of Science in Public health in 2017 from Babcock University and graduated from University College Cork in 2021 with a Master of Public Health (Advanced Epidemiology and Biostatistics). She holds First Class Honours in both degrees.

After receiving her degree in 2017, she joined the National Youth Service Corps and was assigned to work as a Research assistant at the Evangel fistula center in Jos. After her duty ended, she started working as a program officer at the center and an interim training officer for the Christoffel Blinden Mission Women’s Health Programme Germany.

Elizabeth received research expertise in a variety of fields, and after COVID-19 emerged, she worked as a surveillance officer with public health departments in the South and Midwest, supporting the development of surveillance capacity at all levels across the country .

Elizabeth is funded by the HRB SPHERE programme and is currently pursuing a PhD in Population Health and Health Service Research (PHHSR) at the School of Public Health and INFANT. Her doctoral research focuses on the long-term risk of maternal mental health outcomes after adverse pregnancy and birth complications.

Elizabeth planned thesis is titled: Exploring the impact of pregnancy and birth complications on adverse long term maternal mental health outcomes

The objectives of the study are:

1. Examine the association between pregnancy and childbirth complications and adverse long-term maternal mental health outcomes.

2. Understand lived experience of adverse long-term mental health outcomes of women who experience adverse pregnancy and birth complications.

3. Identify if the risk of experiencing long-term maternal mental health outcomes higher in women with pregnancy and birth complications.

She is currently supervised by an incredible team of Dr Ali Khashan, Dr Fergus McCarthy, Dr Karen O’Connor, and Dr Karen Matvienko-Sikar.

Educational Profile

2021-2025: PhD SPHeRE Programme, School of Public Health, University College Cork, and INFANT Centre.

2019-2020: MPH Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University College Cork.

2013-2017: BSc (Hons) Public Health. Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Babcock University Nigeria.

Career Profile

2021 Surveillance Officer: HSE Department of Public Health, Midwest, Ireland

2021 Surveillance Assistant: HSE Department of Public Health, South, Ireland

2018 – 2020 Programme Officer, Women Health Programme funded by Christoffel Blinden Mission Germany.

2017 – 2019 Training Officer, Evangel Fistula Center, funded by Fistula Foundation California.

👏Check out this new paper just out from INFANT Principal Investigators Dr Ali Khashan and Dr Fergus McCarthy

💡’Role of Antihypertensive Treatment and Blood Pressure Control in the Occurrence of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: a Population-Based Study of Linked Electronic Health Records’

Read publication here

#UCCResearch #PregnancyResearch