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Over the last several years, the programme has graduated a number of outstanding researchers, many of whom have gone on to pursue careers in academia and within international and non-governmental organisations. The result is a growing network of alumni and collaborators, through which the TCGH can continue to expand its research.
| Researcher | Location of Study | Title of PhD Thesis | Posts Achieved | |
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| Dr Aisling Hearns | Ireland |
The Poison Dictates the Antiddote: An Evaluation of a Rehabilitation Service for Torture Survivors Seeking International Protection in Ireland. |
Director of Services for Towards Healing in Ireland | |
| Dr Jessica Power | Ireland | Scaling up healthcare interventions: How adaptations are made for local fit across contexts. A Realist Review. | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Trinity Centre for Practice and Healthcare Innovation, School of Nursing and Midwifery, TCD | |
| Dr Thomasena O’Byrne | Malawi | The scale up of an action-research based management strengthening intervention across 9 districts in Malawi | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) based in Liverpool Wellcome Trust Malawi | |
| Dr David Murphy | Ireland | Institutional psychosis: An investigation of psychotic experiences among former residents of institutional facilities | Intel Ireland | |
| Dr Ayat Abu-Agla | Sudan | Assessing the performance of community midwives in Sudan | TDR World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland | |
| Dr Kinan Aldamman | Sudan | Managerial practices to ensure the wellbeing of humanitarian volunteers in post-conflict situations | Regional Staff Psychosocial Support Coordinator for Asia and Pacific at International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC | |
| Dr Larissa Sherwood | Northern Ireland | Identifying context-specific risk for discrete trauma-exposed PSNI officer populations | Police Service of Northern Ireland | |
| Dr Camila Perera | Colombia | Towards the Successful Implementation of Low-Intensity Psychological Interventions for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs): Implementing Problem Management Plus for IDPs in Colombia | Researcher, Office of UNICEF Research - Innocenti | |
| Dr Ida Haahr Pedersen | Denmark | Investigating poly-victimization in child abuse case | Researcher at Børnehus Hovedstaden, The Danish Children's Centre for the Capital Region | |
| Dr Brynne Gilmore | Uganda | How do community health committees build community capacity for maternal and child health? A realist evaluation. |
Assistant Professor, University College Dublin, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems |
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| Dr Joanne McVeigh | International Waters | Assessing the impact of positive psychology interventions in the context of maritime health | Lecturer/Assistant Professor, NUI Maynooth | |
| Dr Nuha Ibrahim | Sudan | Work environment and performance of maternity health professionals in public maternity hospitals in Khartoum | Lecturer in Public Health, University of Limerick | |
| Dr Camille Coyle | Ethiopia | Supportive Supervision for Community Health Workers: A Case Study of Ethiopia's Health Extension Programme | Research Officer, Health Research Board, Ireland | |
| Dr Vincent Agyapong | Ghana | Extent, impact and challenges of task-shifting within health delivery systems – the case of Ghana’s Community Mental Health Workers | Director of Residents Quality Improvement Projects- Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Canada | |
| Dr Caroline Ryan | Uganda | Understanding the impacts of global public health responses to Ebola outbreaks on local health systems in Uganda: A case studies approach |
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| Dr Richard Mugambe | Uganda | Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in HIV/AIDS Affected and Non-Affected Households: access to, perceptions and willingness to pay in Uganda | Lecturer at Makerere University, School of Public Health, Uganda | |
| Dr Amarech Obse Guda | Ethiopia | Institutional aspects of health care financing reforms in Ethiopia | Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Cape Town, South Africa | |
| Dr Vincent Jumbe | Malawi | Understanding HIV risk factors and prevention needs across sexual identities of Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) in Blantyre urban, Malawi | Research Fellow, University of Malawi, College of Medicine | |
| Dr Frédérique Vallières | Sierra Leone | Volunteer community health worker motivation: a longitudinal cohort study in Sierra Leone | Director of the Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin | |
| Dr Karen Hand | Ireland | The role of branding in aid | Founder at Strategy & Research & Director Curly Enterprises | |
| Dr Saheed Akinmayowa Lawal | Nigeria | Health care delivery, access and utilisation in emerging communities and urban slums in South Western Nigeria | Lecturer, Department of Public Health, Babcock University, Nigeria | |
| Dr Simon Nantamu | Uganda | Leadership and organisational attitudes in Ugandan Healthcare | CEO & Management Psychologist at Pinnacle HR & Institutional Development Services, Kampala, Uganda | |
| Dr Isabel Kazanga | Malawi | Equity of access to essential health packages in Malawi: a perspective on uptake of maternal healthcare | Lecturer, University of Malawi, College of Medicine, Malawi | |
| Dr Annariina Koivu | South Africa | HIV information systems and health informatics in South Africa | Post-doctoral Researcher, Global Health and Development, University of Tampere, Finland |