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Full NameDr Peter Barrett
INFANT & Public Health
University College Cork
Webpage:infantcentre.ie
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- infectious disease and the immune system
- epidemiology/population health research
- one health
- artificial intelligence/machine learning/data analytics
- global health/inclusion health
- Other
Maternal health, Public health
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- General Practice
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Occupational Medicine
- Paediatrics
- Public Health
- Veterinary Medicine
- Adolescent medicine
- Cardiology
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Community Medicine
- Dementia
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Geriatric Medicine
- Health Informatics
- Hospice and palliative medicine
- Infectious diseases
- Nephrology
- Neuropsychiatry
- Oncology
- Psychiatry
- Veterinary Epidemiology
- Veterinary Public Health
My research is diverse and covers a range of areas of public health practice, including the following broad topic areas:
(i) Maternal health, particularly how antenatal complications are harnessed to predict and prevent chronic disease
(ii) Infectious diseases, quantifying burden of disease, understanding transmission dynamics, and prevention/control efforts
(iii) Substance use, particularly in adolescents and at population level
(iv) Disease prevention among marginalised groups.
Selected publications:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2760663
https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(24)00043-7/fulltext
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/73/3/e754/6131730
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.23.2000972
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350625001301?via%3Dihub
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003255
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032717320797
I would be delighted to discuss any potential topics which might benefit from a strong epidemiological component, or applied public health perspective. Most of my research involves secondary data analysis from routine data sources or existing surveys, but I also lead several systematic reviews and qualitative studies. My research is inter-disciplinary by nature, and involves close collaborative working with multiple medical specialties.
Opportunities for potential candidates would include (but are by no means limited to) the following broad areas:
(i) Maternal health - quantification of morbidity burden, identification of secondary prevention opportunities for future chronic disease (e.g. cardiovascular disease, renal disease, dementia, stroke), knowledge translation to health service
(ii) Infectious diseases - quantification of morbidity burden, applied prevention/control research. Previous research has spanned HIV/STI, Covid-19, iGAS, Measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases
(iii) Substance use - use of routine data sources and existing national surveys to drive preventive interventions at population level. May be particularly relevant for those interested in child/adolescent health, mental health, public health.
As an Emerging Supervisor I have capacity to provide considerable hands-on supervision and guidance to ICAT Fellows, as I already do. I am open to co-supervision with any established Supervisors. At present several of my collaborators (and potential co-supervisors) are based in UCC and RCSI respectively, but I am open to working with colleagues from any institution.