Category: Health

The spread of health disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Lauren Cotter 28/04/2025

When Ireland entered its first national COVID-19 lockdown on March 27th, 2020, people turned to social media for updates and health information. Alongside the accurate and helpful information from official health organisations such as the HSE, the ECDC, and the CDC, a wave of misleading and false content plagued social media. This surge of …

Rethinking Irish and Global Healthcare

Lauren Cotter 05/03/2025

The IGHNx: Global Health Reimagined event was held by the Irish Global Health Network, co-hosted by the HSE Global Health Programme, on the 13th of …

Navigating Digital Healthcare: Equity, Access, and the HSE Health App

Adeelia Goffe, Molly Newell, Maria (Marysia) Pachowicz 04/03/2025

The 2024 EU Digital Decade report reaffirmed what many HSE beneficiaries already suspected: The state of Ireland’s e-health systems is woefully …

New Partnership between Citizens and the State is Good News for Hard Pressed Parents

Colm O'Doherty 09/06/2022

At a time when the Government is embroiled in a damaging row over the planned move of the National Maternity Hospital its new National Model of …

Gender Impacts of Covid-19

Mary Murphy 14/07/2020

The C-19 pandemic has tracked existing social and economic fault lines. It thrives and lays bare existing inequalities and has been …

Food, health, and climate policy post-COVID-19

Tom Arnold 26/05/2020

As countries emerge from the worst ravages of Covid-19, governments face crucial decisions on balancing the health of citizens with the re-opening of …

The Future of the Irish Healthcare System

Kirsty Doyle 03/05/2020

On the 24 March 2020, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced that private hospitals would operate as public during the COVID-19 Emergency. This measure was …

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