Professor Clíona Ní Cheallaigh

Clíona Ní Cheallaigh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine, TCD and a Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine in St James’s Hospital, Dublin. She is the Clinical Lead of a pilot Inclusion Health Service in St James’s Hospital dedicated to improving access to specialist hospital care for socially excluded individuals. This service has been featured:

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/a-health-programme-for-the-socially-excluded-is-reaping-benefits-1.3877528

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/dr-homelessness-caring-for-dublin-s-most-vulnerable-patients-1.3247190?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Flife-and-style%2Fhealth-family%2Fdr-homelessness-caring-for-dublin-s-most-vulnerable-patients-1.3247190

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/14/inclusion-health-an-irish-answer-to-the-homelessness-crisis

Her research seeks to look at the effect of social exclusion on health from a number of perspectives, and includes work on health systems design and evaluation, work funded by the HRB on premature ageing in homeless adults and work on the effect of social exclusion on the immune system funded by the Royal Hospitals of Dublin Trust.

She is also part of the SFI-funded COVID-19 Research Hub in TCD, with a particular interest in looking at why people who are marginalized are more likely to get severe COVID-19.

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/trinity-welcomes-further-investment-in-covid-19-research-project/

More reading on Inclusion Health here:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)31959-1/fulltext

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0030449