ProfGráinne Cousins

Gráinne is Associate Professor at the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of drug use, conducting diverse epidemiological studies including, data linkage studies, cohort studies, delphi consensus studies and systematic reviews on mortality risk associated with drug use; opioid agonist treatment; gender differences in drug use and overdose mortality; and prescription drug misuse and associated harms.

Gráinne is a member of the Psychological Society of Ireland, and the Society for the Study of Addiction. She was appointed to the National Drug Strategy Research Sub-Committee in 2022 to oversee research and monitoring aspects of the national drugs strategy. She completed a BA (Hons) in Applied Psychology at University College Cork, followed by an MSc in Health Psychology at the National University of Ireland Galway, and a PhD at the School of Population Health Sciences, RCSI. After completing her PhD, she worked as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the HRB Centre for Primary Care Research at the Department of General Practice, RCSI. Gráinne was appointed Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy in 2013 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017, and subsequently to Associate Professor in 2023.