Senior Research Fellow and Evidence Synthesis Methodologist at the Evidence Synthesis Hub for Emerging Health Threats Ireland (Evidence Synthesis Ireland & Cochrane Ireland, University of Galway). PhD in Population Health and Health Services Research; MSc Health Economics. Research interests: evidence synthesis methodology, cardiovascular disease prevention, lipidology, health misinformation, and overdiagnosis. Contributed rapid reviews to Ireland's NPHET during COVID-19.

My research interests include communicating uncertainty in scientific evidence, the overuse of medicine, the expansion of disease definitions and the clinical thresholds used to define healthy and unhealthy states, and the concepts of choice, informed decision-making, and the delineation of low-value care. My skills include evidence synthesis methodology (systematic, scoping and rapid reviews; GRADE methodology), science communication, epidemiology, health technology assessment, data management and Microsoft Office suite.