Research Interests

Professor of Primary Healthcare Research at the Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick. She is the first social scientist to hold a Chair in academic primary care in Ireland. Anne has 20 years' experience of using qualitative research methods with a portfolio of completed health services research projects and educational research projects. She leads the Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) research group and is theme leader for PPI in the Health Research Institute.

Anne is the coordinator of the following research projects:

• RESTORE (http://www.fp7restore.eu/)
• HRB - Primary Care Reform in Ireland
• HRB - FUSION
• Partnership for Health Equity

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• Anne is also member of the UL GEMS research team for the EU Life Long Learning project (C2ME) Cultural Competence in Medical Education (see link below):

• https://www.amc.nl/web/Research/Major-projects-and-collaborations/Overview/Culturally-Competent-in-Medical-Education/Culturally-Competent-in-Medical-Education/Project-C2ME.htm