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The Health Behaviour Change Research Group, HRB Primary Care Clinical Trials Network Ireland, and the Health Promotion Research Centre are running an Autumn 2019 joint seminar series to highlight research in the area of population health and health services. All are welcome to attend, and a light lunch will be served from 12.30pm.

We are delighted that Professor Jeremy Grimshaw, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute will deliver the next seminar on Tuesday 3^rd December at 1pm, (light lunch 12.30pm), G065, School of Psychology, NUI Galway on the topic of ‘Optimising audit and feedback to improve care and population outcomes’. 

Co-hosted by the Health Behavioural Change Research Change Group and the HRB Trials Methodology Research Network

Prof Jeremy Grimshaw received a MBChB (MD equivalent) from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He trained as a family physician prior to undertaking a PhD in health services research at the University of Aberdeen. He moved to Canada in 2002. His research focuses on the evaluation of interventions to disseminate and implement evidence-based practice. He is a Senior Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, a Full Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health Knowledge Transfer and Uptake. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal College of Edinburgh. He has been awarded the CIHR Knowledge Translation award twice, and is the 2018 CIHR Barer-Flood career achievement award winner for Health Services and Policy Research. He has over 550 peer reviewed publications. To read more about Prof Grimshaw and his work, please visit the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the Centre for Implementation Research. Prof Grimshaw is a recipient of the Ireland Canada University Foundation Flaherty Visiting Professorship. He will return to NUI Galway for a 12 week visit in Spring 2020.