Dr. Paul Doody
Research Fellow, Public Health & Primary Care
Biography
My expertise is in interventional health research and evidence synthesis, where I have a background in frailty and multimorbidity, clinical exercise physiology, health behaviour change (physical activity, smoking cessation, weight management), digital health, and disease and illness prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation.
I joined the Discipline of Public Health and Primary Care at the Institute of Population Health at Trinity College Dublin in January 2024 as a Senior Researcher (Fellow) working and leading on large randomised controlled trials in primary care and evidence synthesis for national clinical guideline development at the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA), in collaboration with the Department of Health and Health Service Executive, as part of the Collaboration in Ireland for Clinical Effectiveness Reviews (HRB-CICER).
I have extensive experience and interest in interventional health research at all stages of the Medical Research Council's framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions including systematic and scoping reviews (and meta-analyses), co-designed intervention and trial development, feasibility and pilot studies, large definitive randomised controlled trials of intervention effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, and evaluation of evidence-based national and international policy implementation. I have led and managed all phases of interventional and evidence synthesis research including successful grant writing, co-designed intervention and trial development, patient and public involvement, ethical and governance approvals, research site and participant recruitment, data collection, mixed methods analyses, screening, data extraction, quality assessment, narrative and quantitative syntheses, dissemination and public engagement, and overall project and personnel management in primary, secondary, and tertiary health setting in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Further I have experience and interest in the development and implementation evaluation of national and international clinical guidelines and epidemiological designs using genetic variation as a natural experiment to examine the causal effect of modifiable risk factors on health outcomes.
I have previously worked as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher at the School of Sport, Exercise, and Rehabilitation Sciences at University of Birmingham (2016-2019) on the European Commission"s Horizion 2020 funded Physical Activity Nutritional INfleunces In ageing (PANINI) project; a Postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow on The Irish Longitudinal stuDy on Ageing (TILDA) within the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin (2019-2022), and as a Postdoctoral Health Service Researcher within the Health Behaviours team at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford (2022-2024), where I remain an Honorary Senior Researcher.