ALL IRELAND SOCIAL PRESCRIBING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor, Discipline of Occupational Therapy Trinity College, Dublin
Deirdre Connolly is an Associate Professor, Discipline of Occupational Therapy, Trinity College, Dublin. She is a researcher in social prescribing evaluating the impact of social prescribing on health and well-being of individuals with chronic diseases, multimorbidity and people living with and beyond cancer. Contact Deirdre if you are interested in joining the AISPN Research & Evaluation working group connoldm@tcd.ie
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Consultant Physician - St James Hospital
Dr David Robinson is a consultant physician in geriatric medicine at St James' Hospital and a senior clinical lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin. He helped create the Local Asset Mapping Project (LAMP), a community-generated online directory of services to improve health and wellbeing through social prescribing.
Job Titles:
- Regional Manager - Bogside and Brandywell Health Forum
Emer McDaid works at the Bogside and Brandywell Health Forum as the new Regional Manager for SPRING Social Prescribing NI where she leads on strategic and operational development. Emer has a background in health development and improvement and has successfully led education and employment projects within the homeless sector that aim to break down barriers and tackle health, wellbeing and educational inequalities. Emer is passionate about promoting preventative measures for those that are vulnerable within communities, indicating her passion for her new and current role within the SPRING project.
Job Titles:
- CEO - Elemental Identity Working Group
Jennifer is driven by a passion for ending health inequalities. She set up Elemental with Leeann Monk, to establish, scale and measure the impact of social prescribing, connecting people, building communities, and improving lives. Jennifer works every day on that mission, to spread the word about the social prescribing movement and demonstrate the uptake and impact.
Job Titles:
- Project Manager
- Project Manager - HSE
Orla is a Project Manager working in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Programme in the Health Service Executive, Ireland. Orla has a background in research, policy and health promotion in the areas of childhood obesity, food poverty, cancer screening, mental health promotion and social prescribing. Orla is centrally involved in supporting the mainstreaming and integration of social prescribing within the Irish Health Service.
Job Titles:
- Regional Business Manager - NI Health and Social Care Board
A graduate in Psychology from Queen's University Belfast, Sinéad also holds a Master's Degree in Health Psychology from The University of the West of England. Sinéad has worked within the health and care arena in Northern Ireland For 18 Years, holding service improvement and partnership working posts within both the voluntary and statutory sector. The past 8 years has been spent in the field of integrated care working on the establishment of Integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs) in the role of Regional Business manager for ICPs with the NI Health and Social Care Board. In the last number of years Social Prescribing as a tool for integrated care and to improve population health has also become a key part of my role.
Job Titles:
- Health Promotion Officer, HSE, Waterford
Communication and Networking working group. Susan believes in the importance of designing policy, practice and services around the evidence on social need. She was involved in the development of the first Waterford Social Prescribing Service. Susan values partnership working and with the development of Social Prescribing in Ireland she has witnessed the power of working together.
Job Titles:
- Regional Coordinator - Healthy Living Cntre Alliance
Tony is Regional Coordinator with the Healthy Living Centre Alliance, a network of health and well being organisations in the north. He Chairs the Northwest Integrated Care Partnership and, as such, has been involved in a number of NI Government Workstreams i.e. Expanding Community Development Practice and the new Integrated Care Service. A published writer of memoir, Tony is Chair of the Bloody Sunday Trust in Derry and is a Member of the NI National lottery Community Fund.