ProfTom Fahey

Professor Fahey's research interests reflect his dual training and accreditation in General Practice and Public Health/Epidemiology. He collaborates with academic colleagues from multi-disciplinary backgrounds, including Epidemiologists, Statisticians, Health Psychologists, Medical Sociologists and Health Economists.

His main area of research is in the application of epidemiological methods to clinical problems in primary care. Professor Fahey has published extensively in areas that relate to appropriate and safe use of medicines in primary care, clinical prediction rules and has conducted over 10 pragmatic RCTs in primary care.

Professor Fahey lead the HRB Centre for Primary Care Research (2008-2021), please see website- www.hrbcentreprimarycare.ie , for current and past research activities.

His H-Index is 74 Scopus (ID 7103180589); 93 Google scholar; 66 Web of Science (ID C-9367-2012). ORCID ID 0000-0002-5896-5783.

He has supervised to completion 16 PhDs, 3 MDs and 22 Masters degrees. External examiner for PhD/MDs at the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Bond (Australia), Cape Town (S.Africa), Dublin, Dundee, Galway, Georgia (US), Oxford, Sheffield, Southampton, St Andrews, and Queen's University Belfast.

Total grant income since returning to Ireland (2006-2023) is €42,284,018 with €9,364,597 of this amount being funded as Principal Investigator. UK grant income (1995-2006) is £5,050,306 approximately half from project grants and the other half from fellowship awards.