Evangelin Samraj

Evangelin Samraj is a public health professional with a clinical background in dentistry and a PhD researcher at CIRcUL. She completed her Master’s in Public Health at UL, where her interest in health inequalities first deepened. During her practicum with the HSE Mid-West Public Health Department, Evangelin contributed to projects in Health promotion and equity, which further inspired her commitment to Implementation Research and real-world translation of evidence into policy and practice. 

She is particularly passionate about tackling health inequalities through evidence-informed solutions. Her academic journey is underpinned by a strong motivation to bridge the gap between research and practice, ensuring that policies and programs achieve impact for the communities they are designed to serve.

Evangelin’s PhD focuses on developing a scalability implementation framework to support the effective scale-up of evidence-based policies and interventions across diverse public practice and policy contexts. The project involves three phases: a scoping review of existing scalability frameworks; stakeholder engagement through interviews and focus groups across CIRcUL-led projects in health, housing and education; and the synthesis of findings to design and refine a novel framework. By integrating evidence with stakeholder perspectives, this work will produce practical guidance to access and enhance the scalability of interventions, ensuring the successful initiatives can be adapted and sustained in real-world settings. The research will contribute to strengthening implementation science and supporting policymakers, practitioners and researchers to plan for scalable, equitable and impactful solutions.