Professor Molly Byrne

Biography

Molly is Professor of Health Psychology in the School of Psychology at NUI Galway. She is Director of the Health Behaviour Change Research Group. Within this group, she and her team apply behavioural science to the development and evaluation of complex interventions to promote healthy behaviour change within health services and to promote public health.

Molly's key research interests are in: Chronic disease prevention and self-management; Cardiovascular disease; Diabetes; Promotion of healthy infant feeding; Promotion of physical activity; Interventions targeting health professional behaviour change; Research methods related to evaluation of behavioural interventions. 

Molly obtained an honours degree in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin (1994) and both a Masters degree in Health Psychology (1998) and a PhD (2003) from NUI, Galway. Molly joined the School of Psychology in NUI, Galway in July 2004 as Health Psychology Lecturer, where she has contributed to and directed the MSc in Health Psychology and Structured PhD in Psychology and Health, and established the new Structured PhD in Health Psychology Practice. She is Director of the Health Research Board funded Collaborative Doctoral Programme in Chronic Disease Prevention (CDP-CDP). 


Presentation: Improving behavioural intervention research: Priorities and opportunities

In this keynote presentation, Molly will present the findings of an international, Delphi consensus study conducted within the International Behavioural Trials Network to identify priorities for improving methods in behavioral trials research. She will discuss identified priorities, including methods for intervention development, enhancing translation of research into policy and practice, and developing novel research designs, giving examples of current projects from her own work and highlighting future opportunities. 


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