Frank Doyle

As Valentine’s Day is approaching, it’s important to remember that avoiding or stopping smoking is necessary for good heart health! 🫀

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#stopsmoking #research #quit #ireland #financial #incentives

Last chance to get your abstracts in and enjoy a great day with excellent keynote speakers, Professors @ronamoss-morris.bsky.social and @gerrymolloy.bsky.social

Only two days left to submit your abstract to the #PHM2026 conference taking place in the @rcsipophealth.bsky.social in April 2026. We’d love to see you there!

What do people in Ireland think about using vouchers to support quitting smoking or vaping? We’re running a short online survey to understand public views on adding financial incentives to QUIT service.
🕒 Takes about 10-min
🔒 Anonymous, no right or wrong answers
👉 www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/vapequit/

The @vape-research.bsky.social want to identify preferences for financial rewards to help people quit smoking and vaping.

Complete the survey here to have your voice heard: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/vapequit/ 💻

#vaping #cessation #nicotine #ireland #research

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Last week, we said Slán/Dag to Linda van der Spek, who supported us these past few months 👋

Together, we produced/drafted a commentary, highlighting similarities & differences in smoking cessation policies/services in Ireland & the Netherlands 🇮🇪🇳🇱

Go raibh míle maith agat / Dank je wel, Linda! 👏

Registration & call for abstracts for 22nd Psychology, Health & Medicine Annual Conference are now open.

Theme 👉 Health Psychology in a Changing World: Navigating Complexity, Driving Impact

🗓️ 24 April, @rcsi.bsky.social

www.rcsi.com/phm

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New year, New profile pic! 😎📸

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📣Minister for Mental Health Mary Butler has announced €3M for #mentalhealthresearch. HRB will award €1M to @maynoothuniversity.ie to establish a Collaborative Research Network in #MentalHealth & €2M to support 10 new mental health research projects. Read more: www.hrb.ie/hrb/minister...

Happy New Year from the COMPASS project! 🎉🥂

We can’t wait for what 2026 has in store for us! 🙌

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#Newyear #smokingcessation #research #Ireland #financialincentives #quitsmoking #RCSI

The 22nd Psychology, Health & Medicine Annual Conference will take place at @rcsi.bsky.social on 24 April 2026. The theme of the conference is 'Health Psychology in a Changing World: Navigating Complexity, Driving Impact'.

The call for abstracts is now open.

Visit: www.rcsi.com/phm

We are delighted to have visiting researcher from Erasmus MC, Linda van der Spek join team COMPASS for the next number of weeks! 🇮🇪🇳🇱

We very much hope you enjoy all that Dublin and RCSI has to offer, Linda (including our RCSI School of Population Health staff Christmas party this evening!🤭)

RCSI researchers awarded COALESCE grant to improve national depression care RCSI researchers have been awarded €219,960 in competitive funding through Research Ireland’s COALESCE 2025 programme. More ...

A research project led by Prof @fdoyle4.bsky.social & Dr Fiona Boland to generate robust, locally relevant evidence on the effectiveness & cost-efficiency of treatments for depression has been funded through the @researchireland.ie COALESCE grant programme.

www.rcsi.com/dublin/news-...

Congrats to Dr Gintare Valentelyte for winning the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland Award 2004 in the Public Health Medicine/ Epidemiology category. Dr Valentelyte is a postdoctoral researcher in Converge, @rcsipophealth.bsky.social.

📣 We are seeking to recruit new PPI representatives for the COMPASS project!

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please contact, Cheyenne Downey (cheyennedowney@rcsi.ie) 📧

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Gintare won the award for the research paper 'Socioeconomic Variation in Tobacco Smoking Among the Adult Population in Ireland' doi.org/10.1093/ntr/..., co-authored with Prof. Frank Doyle @fdoyle4.bsky.social, Prof. Jan Sorensen, Aisling Sheridan & Dr Paul Kavanagh.

Happy Halloween! We hope all our followers, community members and stakeholders have a safe and fun Halloween! 🎃

Head on over to our LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/company/rcsi... ) & Instagram (lnkd.in/e5b-9bri ) accounts to see some SPOOKtacular updates from team COMPASS! 👻

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📣 New social media account alert📱

Team COMPASS are now on Instagram (@rcsicompassproject). Head on over and give us a follow!

➡️ lnkd.in/e5b-9bri

#Instagram #smokingcessation #financial #incentives #RCSI #Ireland

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Professor Leonie Young wins Women in STEM Award for Science Professor Leonie Young, RCSI Department of Surgery, has been named winner of the Women in STEM Award for Science at the annual Business Post Women in STEM Awards.

Congratulations to Professor Leonie Young, RCSI Department of Surgery and Scientific Director of the Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre, who won the Women in STEM Award for Science at the Women in STEM Awards 2025.

Learn more ➡️ www.rcsi.com/dublin/news-...

#RCSIDiscover #BPWomeninSTEMAwards25

Over 1000 terms have been used to describe evidence synthesis: a scoping review Objective To inform the development of an evidence synthesis taxonomy, we aimed to identify and examine all classification systems, typologies or taxonomies that have been proposed for evidence synthe...

Colossal piece of work on terminology in #EvidenceSynthesis
We identified 1010 unique terms to describe a type of evidence synthesis; of these, 742 terms were only mentioned once ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...

New psychometrics paper www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How long-term effects of smoking include harm to Irish economy Despite efforts to reduce smoking, about 18% of people in Ireland still smoke, a number which has not fallen since 2020

About 18% of people in Ireland still smoke, writes Dr Gintare Valentelyte in @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social. She details research looking at the long-term effects of smoking, showing how it harms our health & probably the economy.

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www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Dr Mengyang Zhang @mengyangz.bsky.social is a postdoctoral researcher in @rcsipsychology.bsky.social, working on the VAPE-INTERVENE project. As part of Postdoc Appreciation Week, we asked Mengyang to provide some information on her research.

#NPAW2025 #LovePostdocs @fdoyle4.bsky.social

Deadline 17th September so get your application in for this exciting role!

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A great resource for #EarlyCareerResearchers in Ireland #ECRChat Navigating #OpenResearch - A guide for early career researchers
zenodo.org/records/1702...

70 trials, few answers: the case for better research on interventions for depression among patients with cancer Analysis, insights and commentary on population health issues from the RCSI School of Population Health.

Depression is common among ppl living w/ cancer. Despite decades of research, we still don’t know which treatments for depression work best. @mariapertl.bsky.social, @fdoyle4.bsky.social et al expand on their recent review to address this.

healthscape-population-health.blogspot.com/2025/09/70-t...

We're recruiting for a postdoc, suitable for psychologist, health services researcher, health economist or related discipline. The researcher will be employed on @researchireland.ie-funded project to evaluate treatments for depression & their costs
my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

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Come and work with us in @rcsipsychology.bsky.social @rcsipophealth.bsky.social @fionaboland.bsky.social on a 2 year postdoctoral position on evidence synthesis and economics my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

The effects of a task shifted multi-component mental health intervention to support prosthetic and orthotic service users in Cambodia: a non-randomised controlled study - International Journal of Ment... Background Mental health disorders are major public health challenges, particularly in low- and middle-income countries such as Cambodia, where chronic shortages in mental health services and human re...

Delighted this paper is published! It reports the effects of our task shifted multi-component mental health intervention (incorporating peer support, psycho-education, mindfulness and behavioural activation) on psychological distress among persons with disabilities @rcsipophealth.bsky.social