People

Prof Clíona Ní Cheallaigh 

Clíona is the lead of the Inclusion Health Research Group in Trinity College Dublin, and is leading a number of projects on social exclusion and health funded by Health Research Board, the Health Service Executive, National Quality Improvement Team and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. She is an Associate Professor in Clinical Medicine in TCD and is actively engaged with undergraduate and postgraduate education focusing on professional identity formation and health equity. She is a Consultant Physician and lead of the Inclusion Health Service in St James's Hospital. 

Email: nicheacm@tcd.ie

Dr Aoibheann Ní Chonfhaola 

Aoibheann is a consultant in Palliative Care in St James's Hospital and Our Lady's Hospice. She is interested in end-of-life care for people experiencing homelessness and other forms of social exclusion and is currently working on a MD on this topic.  

Email: chonfhaa@tcd.ie

Dr Cathy Cunningham 

Cathy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. She is also a general practitioner and has spent time on the Inclusion Health Team in St James’ Hospital. Her research focuses on differential attainment within medical education. 

Email: cunninc7@tcd.ie 

Ailbhe Herity  

Ailbhe is a Research Assistant in the Group and is leading analysis of PATH data. She has a BSc in Immunology from TCD.  

Email: heritya@tcd.ie

Sinead McGarry 

Bio to come

Email: smcgarry@stjames.ie

Chris O'Donnell  

Chris is a peer support worker with Safetynet Primary Care, peer educator with Recovery College DCU, and researcher in the INCLUDE study. Her research interests include full integration of experiential expertise, drugs and mental health in homelessness research, as well as survival sex and sex work in female homelessness.  

Email: chris@primarycaresafetynet.ie

Conor Reddy 

Conor is an IRC Enterprise PhD Scholar in the Social Immunology Lab in the Trinity Translational Medicine Institute at St. James' Hospital, working in partnership with Depaul Ireland. With a background in Genetics he is interested in how stress associated with homelessness and low socioeconomic status "gets under the skin" to impact biology affecting ageing and the immune system. 

Email: reddyco@tcd.ie 

Dr Georgia Richard

Georgia is a Specialist Registrar in Neurology and an Irish Academic Clinician Training Programme Fellow. Her PhD project will look at cognition in long-term homeless adults. 

Email: richarg@tcd.ie

Dr Audrey Rice

Bio to come

Email: adrice@tcd.ie

Dr Rikke Siersbaek 

Rikke is a research fellow in the School of Medicine in Trinity College Dublin. She is project coordinator and researcher on the INCLUDE study. She graduated with a PhD from the SPHeRE programme and Trinity College in 2022. Her research interests are inclusion health and realist approaches.  

Email: siersbar@tcd.ie 

Prof Frédérique Vallières 

Frédérique an Associate Professor in Global Health and Psychology and the Director of the Trinity Centre for Global Health, where she also directs the PhD in Global Health (INDIGO). Her current research focuses on the application of Psychology to Global Health, with a focus on Global Mental Health, Health System Strengthening, and Human Resources for Health. Concerned with closing the research-to-practice gap prevalent within Global Health, she prioritises working in close collaboration with civil society organisations and through multidisciplinary consortiums comprising European, sub-Saharan African, Asian, and Middle Eastern partners.  
Email: fvallier@tcd.ie 

Aoibhinn Walsh 

Bio to come

Email: aoibhinnwalsh@gmail.com

Dr Ganzamungu Zihindula 

Ganzamungu graduated with a PhD in public health from the University of Kwazulu-Natal South Africa. His research explored the access barriers to healthcare services for refugees and asylum seekers. He is passionate about health inclusion, health equity and social justice for the socially excluded people. His work is found at the intersection between access to care, health promotion intervention development implementation and evaluation, human resource for health, prevention strategies for NCDs (Cancer, Diabetes, Hypertension & Mental health conditions), forced migration and health. Ganzamungu is currently a research fellow at the centre for Global Health Trinity College Dublin. 

Email: zihindug@tcd.ie