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Dr. Ann Nolan

Assistant Professor (Sch Office - Social Work & Social Policy)
      
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Dr. Ann Nolan

Assistant Professor (Sch Office - Social Work & Social Policy)

 nolana13@tcd.ie

 3531896 8727


Ann Nolan is an Assistant Professor in Social Policy with a research and teaching portfolio in global health. She is a technical specialist in HIV and sexual health with research in sexual and reproductive health and rights; the politics of health; inclusion health, and the regulation of sexuality and other contested policy domains. Ann is a former Executive Director and Chairperson of HIV Ireland Ltd and an advocate for the rights of sexual minorities and people living with HIV. She has led the development of global policy frameworks for adolescents and most-at-risk young people with UNICEF and UNAIDS, and has been an advisor to Ireland's International Development Cooperation programme at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Irish Aid. As team lead for social science research in the Houses of the Oireachtas she supported dialogue and debate with evidence around the Termination of Pregnancy Bill, safe access zones, school-based sex education and good governance for health through the Dáil and Seanad. Ann brings to academia a lengthy professional career that has emphasised the relationship between evidence and policy at national, bilateral and multilateral levels. She was among the first mature-student graduates of the B.A. modular night-degree in University College Dublin in 1991 from which she commenced an MSc in Social Policy funded by the European Commission. She was awarded a Postgraduate Research Studentship by the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin, to undertake doctoral research in HIV and sexual health in Ireland from which she graduated in 2014.
  ABORTION   Health policy analysis   HIV AND AIDS   Reproductive health   Sexuality and sexual health   SOCIAL POLICY
Project Title
 Engaging Adolescents in Sexual Health Services in Ethiopia (EASE)
From
01.09.2021
To
30.08.2024
Summary
Engaging Adolescents in Sexual Health Services in Ethiopia (EASE) is a research collaboration between the Trinity Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin; the School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, with the support and guidance of the Embassy of Ireland's, Overseas Development Assistance programme in Addis Ababa. Aligned with Ireland and Ethiopia's high-level commitments to engage youth and adolescents in the development and delivery of SRH, as enshrined in the Nairobi Statement on ICPD25: Accelerating the Promise, EASE uses gender transformative, participatory action research methods to (i) determine what adolescents consider to be their meaningful engagement within SRH service delivery and programming in the Afar region of Ethiopia and (ii) describe a model of good practice for how to meaningfully involve adolescents in SRH programming within pastoralist regions. Achieved through a civil society partnership with Engender Health, a Norwegian Government-funded civil society organisation working in Afar to support and provide SRH services to adolescents and youth, findings arising from EASE will inform policy and decision-making at bilateral, federal, regional, and district levels to ensure that adolescents are more meaningfully engaged within the design and delivery of SRH services. EASE will further identify potential entry-points for Irish Aid and the Embassy of Ireland to add value to bilateral policy priorities in this sphere and to complement existing Irish Aid-funded programming in the Afar region.
Funding Agency
Irish Research Council
Programme
Coalesce
Project Type
Participatory Action Research
Person Months
90
Project Title
 The Political Economy of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in LMICs
From
01.12.2021
To
30.08.2023
Summary
Despite increasing interest in global sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) the political economy of SRHR interventions in LMICS is poorly understood. This desk-based study will review the international evidence in order to shed light on the political and economic enablers and barriers to SRHR in developing contexts.
Funding Agency
TCD Dean of Research Office
Programme
Research 'Boost' Award
Project Type
Desk Research and Interviews
Person Months
6
Project Title
 COVID-19 Toolbox for an 'all island' (CONTAIN) project: A cross border analysis in Ireland to disentangle psychological, behavioural, media and Governmental responses to COVID-19
From
06.06.2020
To
06.12.2020
Summary
The CONTAIN project aims to identify relevant, feasible and effective approaches that ensure acceptance and adherence to public health messages and measures. The study led by Dr Ann Nolan is undertaking a political economy analysis of COVID-19 and mapping the policy transfer pathway from multilateral actors to policy communities responding to COVID-19 in the ROI and NI. This data will be mapped alongside epidemiological data of incidence and mortality to develop a toolbox for national and global public health leadership in the immediate term and the predicted second COVID-19 wave. This research aligns with two thematic research priorities in the WHO's Coordinated Global Research COVID-19 Roadmap 2020: 'public health' and 'media communications'.
Funding Agency
Health Research Board and the Irish Research Council
Programme
HRN COVID-19 Rapid Response Awards
Project Type
Primary and secondary data
Person Months
2
Project Title
 SASA! Raising Voices in South Sudan
From
30.11.2019
To
31.12.2020
Summary
The SASA! framework has been adapted by World Vision Ireland to address the link between gender-based violence in the Upper Nile Region of South Sudan. The TCGH is providing the research and evaluation component as part of a humanitarian intervention funded by Irish Aid entitled, "Building the resilience of women and children through increased access to education and protection services." (Irish Aid, Humanitarian Programme Plan 2019-2020)
Funding Agency
Irish Aid/World Vision Ireland
Programme
Humanitarian Programme
Project Type
Review and evaluate from baseline
Person Months
14
Project Title
 Period Poverty in Ireland
From
01.06.2021
To
30.09.2021
Summary
The World Bank estimates that 500 million women and girls globally do not have access to menstrual hygiene products. While 50% of school-aged girls living in Ireland cite affordability as a barrier to accessing sanitary products and 61% of those report missing school while menstruating, we know surprisingly little about 'period poverty' in Ireland. This qualitative study, undertaken through the Trinity Access Programme, will add to our understanding of the ways in which lack of access to menstrual hygiene products impacts on second and third level education in Ireland.
Funding Agency
Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Programme
Project Type
Primary research
Person Months
2

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Academic research representative on the Health Service Executive National Sexual Health Strategy implementation group 2020
Trinity representative on the European Global Health Research and Innovation Network (EGHRIN) as part of LERU January
Editorial Board of PLOS One Global Public Health August 2021
Irina Kinchin, Sharon Walsh, Rachel Dinh, Margaret Kapuwa, Sean P Kennelly, Ann-Marie Miller, Ann Nolan, Sean O"Dowd, Laura O"Philbin, Suzanne Timmons, Iracema Leroi, Dissonance in the face of Alzheimer's breakthroughs: Clinician and lay stakeholder acceptance, concerns and willingness to pay for emerging disease-modifying therapies, The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2024, Journal Article, IN_PRESS
Darker CD, Mullin M, Doyle L, Tanner M, McGrath D, Doherty L, Dreyer-Gibney K, Barrett EM, Flynn D, Murphy P, Ivers JH, Burke E, Ryan M, McCarron M, Murphy P, Sheils O, Hevey D, Leen A, Keogh L, Walls B, Bennett AE, Petersen F, Nolan A, Barry JM., Developing a health promoting university in Trinity College Dublin-overview and outline process evaluation, Health Promotion International, 38, (4), 2023, p1 - 14, p1-14 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
PLOS ONE Global Public Health, San Francisco, California, Public Library of Science, [eds.], 2022, Editorial Board, PUBLISHED
Martin Dempster, Nicola O'Connell, Christopher D. Graham, Cliodhna O'Connor, Lina Zgaga, Emma Burke, Luke Mather, Gail Nicolson, Joe Barry, Gabriel Scally, Ann Nolan. Katy Tobin, Philip Crowley and Catherine D. Darker, Non-adherence to COVID-19 containment behaviours: results from an all-Ireland telephone surv, BMC Public Health, 22, (898), 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Camille Rich, Webster Mavhu, Nadine Ferris France, Vongai Munatsi, Elaine Byrne, Nicola Willis, Ann Nolan, Exploring the beliefs, experiences and impacts of HIV-related self-stigma amongst adolescents and young adults living with HIV in Harare, Zimbabwe: A qualitative study, PLOS ONE, 10, (1371), 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Vallières F, Murphy J, McBride O, Shevlin M, Gilmore B, Travers Á, Nolan A, Butter S, Karatzias T, Bentall R, Hyland P., The role of psychosocial factors in explaining sex differences in major depression and generalized anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic., BMC Public Health, 17, (22 (1)), 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
"They have their bailiwick and I have mine": the leadership of Mary O'Rouke in the transformation of policy for school-based sex education in the era of AIDS in Ireland in, editor(s)Rosemary Morgan, Sulzan Bali, Roopa Dhatt, Kate Hawkins, Mehr Manzoor , Women in Global Health Leadership: Power and Transformation, Geneva, Springer Nature, 2021, [Ann Nolan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Salla Atkins, Ananya Tina Banerjee, Kathleen Bachynski, Amrita Daftary, Gauri Desai, Aeyal Gross, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Emily Mendenhall, Benjamin Mason Meier, Stephanie A Nixon, Ann Nolan, Tia M Palermo, Alexandra Phelan, Oksana Pyzik, Pamela Roach, Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Claire J. Standley, Gavin Yamey, Seye Abimbola, Madhukar Pai, Using the COVID-19 pandemic to reimagine global health teaching in high-income countries, BMJ Global Health, 6, (e005649), 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Nolan Ann, Burke Sara, Burke Emma, Darker Catherine, Barry Joe, O'Connell Nicola, Zgaga Lina, Mather Luke, Nicolson Gail, Dempster Martin, Graham Christopher, Crowley Philip, O'Connor Cliodhna, Tobin Katy, Scally Gabriel, Obstacles to Public Health that even Pandemics cannot Overcome: The , Irish Studies in International Affairs , 32 , (2 ), 2021, p225 - 246 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Cliodhna O'Connor, Nicola O'Connell, Emma Burke, Martin Dempster, Christopher D. Graham, Gabriel Scally, Lina Zgaga, Ann Nolan, Gail Nicolson, Luke Mather, Joseph Barry, Philip Crowley, Catherine D. Darker,, Bordering on crisis: A qualitative analysis of focus group, social media, and news media perspectives on the Republic of Ireland-Northern Ireland border during the 'first wave' of the COVID-19 pandemic, Social Science and Medicine, 282, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
  

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Whitney Mphangwe, Ann Nolan, Frédérique Vallieres, Mairéad Finn, How do gender norms contribute to stunting in Ntchisi District, Malawi? A qualitative study, medRxiv, doi: https://doi.org, 2023, Journal Article, PRESENTED
Economic and Social Research Institute with the Shared Island Unit, Department of An Taoiseach, The Politics of COVID-19 on the Island of Ireland Launch of the Shared Island Initiative funded project on primary care in Ireland and Northern Ireland on Thursday, 10th March., Launch of the Shared Island Initiative funded project on primary care in Ireland and Northern Ireland , 10th March , 2022, ESRI and the Shared Island Unit, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Ann Nolan, The Gay Community Response to HIV and AIDS in Ireland, Pride in Research, TBSI, 16th June , 2022, TCD LGBTQI+ Society, Notes: [Awarded second prize for presentation by the audience of students present], Invited Talk, PRESENTED
United Nations Population Fund, State of the World's Population 2021, Launch of the State of the World's Population Report, Virtual, 2021, UNFPA and the IFPA, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
HIV Ireland Ltd and the Gay Health Network, The role of the gay community in the response to HIV and AIDS in Ireland, Irish AIDS Day 2021, Virtual, 15th June , 2021, HIV Ireland Ltd, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Centre for Cross Border Studies, The Politics of Covid-19 on the island of Ireland, CCBS 22nd Annual Conference, Belfast, 24th September , 2021, CCBS, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Professor Luke O'Neill, Professor Ian Young, Ass. Professor Ann Nolan and Pat Kenny, What Has the Science Taught Us? The last 18 months of pandemic and the state of global health, scientific advance, social awareness & medical advance. Moving toward new understandings of the previous months and how social realities aid understandings of advance in scientific development?, The Good Summit 2021, Trinity College Dublin, 27th October , 2021, The Good Summit, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Dr Ann Nolan, Dr Samuel Egyeigh, Jeremy Whitty, Dr Mirgissa Kaba, Decolonizing Global Health, Global Health Education Symposium, Virtual, 22nd October, 2021, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Irish Council of General Practitioners, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Ann Nolan, The politics of COVID-19 on the Island of Ireland, RCPI Lecture Hour, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, 24th September , 2021, RCPI, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Maeve Scally and Ann Nolan, Report to World Vision Ireland on a Community Development intervention for gender-based violence in a humanitarian setting in South-Sudan during the COVID-19 pandemic. , Dublin, December, 2020, Report, PUBLISHED

  


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