Inclusive health research: creating participatory spaces for meaningful partnerships with migrants

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Registration is now open for the SPHeRE Network Summer Seminar May 2026

Friday 8th May 2026, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm, In-person

Venue: Aula Maxima, University College Cork (UCC)

Inclusive health research: creating participatory spaces for meaningful partnerships with migrants

with Professor Anne MacFarlane

Chair of Primary Healthcare Research

University of Limerick

Anne MacFarlane is Foundation Chair and Full Professor of Primary Healthcare Research in the School of Medicine, University of Limerick (UL), Ireland since 2011. She is the first female, and only social science, Full Professor in the field of academic general practice and primary care in Ireland.

Anne is Co-Director, with Professor Helen Phelan of an interdisciplinary Participatory Health Research Unit, at the School of Medicine, UL.  She is Director of UL’s World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Participatory Health Research with Refugees and Migrants.

Anne is internationally recognised for her research at the intersection of migration health, participatory health research and implementation science, particularly for cutting edge research about innovative theory and methods to inform co-production and knowledge transfer. She has extensive experience as a Principal Investigator and Co-applicant on numerous national and international research projects with a total research income of 25 million euro. She is currently leading a 600k euro project to improve refugee and migrant involvement in public health policy making, a collaboration between the Irish Department of Health and UL’s WHO Collaborating Centre for Participatory Health Research with Refugees and Migrants.

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