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Dr. Rikke Siersbaek

Research Fellow (Psychology)

 siersbar@tcd.ie

 

Research Fellow (Clinical Medicine)


Biography

Dr Rikke Siersbaek is a Research Fellow in the Trinity Centre for Global Health. She holds a PhD in population health and health services research from Trinity College Dublin which she completed as a scholar on the SPHeRE programme (www.sphereprogramme.ie). She is currently a Research Fellow in the Trinity Centre for Global Health undertaking a scoping review of effective suicide and self-harm prevention interventions in humanitarian and fragile contexts. This scoping review along with an upcoming interview study commencing in early 2025 will inform the development of a toolkit for suicide prevention in humanitarian and fragile contexts to be developed in collaboration with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. She is also leading on a realist review as part of the INCLUDE project (Integrating National Repositories for the Cooperation Linkage and Understanding of a Data Driven approach to the needs of Excluded people). The study entitled Social exclusion over the life course: A realist review (https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=410489), will contribute to our understanding of how social exclusion happens through complex intersectional social processes to populations such as people experiencing homelessness, people with substance dependencies, sex workers, prisoners, and certain minorities (Travellers, aboriginal people). In the summer of 2024 she completed a survey of the scale of physical disability of people accessing homeless accommodation in Dublin and Cork cities, and the accessibility of homeless hostels. The results of the study are forthcoming. In 2022 she completed a research project entitled 'How and why do financial incentives contribute to helping people stop smoking? A realist review' (https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=298941) under co-PIs Dr Sara Burke from the Centre for Health Policy and Management (https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=burkes17) and Dr Paul Kavanagh from the HSE Health Intelligence Unit. Additionally, she worked on the HRB-funded Foundations' project (https://www.tcd.ie/medicine/health_policy_management/research/current/foundations/), researching how key learnings from Ireland's health systems responses to COVID-19 can be used to inform the implementation of Sláintecare. Her thesis is entitled 'How can health systems make healthcare more accessible for populations experiencing homelessness? A realist and policy analysis' (http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/97976). Prior to undertaking her PhD, she was part of the Trinity College Dublin research team which provided technical support to the Committee on the Future of Healthcare and assisted with the drafting of the Sláintecare report, the ten year plan for reforming the Irish health service published in 2017 ( https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/dail/32/committee_on_the_future_of_healthcare/reports/2017/2017-05-30_slaintecare-report_en.pdf). Her research interests include health inequalities, health systems, and health policy, as well as realist research in the school of Pawson and Tilley. She has attended various realist training courses including a week-long Oxford University short course in realist review and realist evaluation taught by Dr Geoff Wong and Dr Chrysanthi Papoutsi. She is the co-author of seven peer reviewed research articles and one book chapter and has presented her research at national and international conferences. She has undertaken consultancy work for Focus Ireland resulting in the publication of a report entitled 'Supporting the mental health of children in families that are homeless: a trauma informed approach' (https://www.focusireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Supporting-the-mental-health-of-children_FINAL.pdf). She a deputy editor of the School of Medicine Newsletter, The Pulse (https://www.tcd.ie/medicine/our-community/newsletter/).

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Schulmann K, Bruen C, Parker S, Siersbaek R, Conghail LM, Burke S, The role of governance in shaping health system reform: a case study of the design and implementation of new health regions in Ireland, BMC Health Services Research, 24, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Parker, Sarah and Mac Conghail, Luisne and Siersbaek, Rikke and Burke, Sara, How to not revert to type: Complexity-informed learnings from the pandemic response for health system reform and universal access to integrated care, Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Ellen Cosgrave, Aishling Sheridan, Edward Murphy, Martina Blake, Rikke Siersbaek, Sarah Parker, Sara Burke, Frank Doyle, Paul Kavanagh, Public attitudes to implementing financial incentives in stopsmoking services in Ireland, Tobacco Prevention & Cessation, 9, (9), 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Parker Sarah, Siersbaek Rikke, Mac Conghail Luisn, Burke Sara, Public Health Responses to Homelessness During COVID-19 in Ireland: Implications for Health Reform, International Journal for Equity in Health, 22, (1), 2023, p36-52-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Siersbaek, R. and O'Donnell, C. and Parker, S. and Ford, J. and Burke, S. and Ní Cheallaigh, C., Social exclusion and its impact on health over the life course: A realist review protocol, HRB Open Research, 6, (34), 2023, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Padraic Fleming, Louise Caffrey, Sara Van Belle, Sarah Barry, Sara Burke, Jacki Conway, Rikke Siersbaek, David Mockler, Stephen Thomas, How International Health System Austerity Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis Impacted Health System and Workforce Resilience " A Realist Review, International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 12, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Unruh, L.; Allin, S.; Marchildon, G.; Burke, S.; Barry, S.; Siersbaek, R.; Thomas, S.; Rajan, S.; Koval, A.; Alexander, M. et al., A comparison of 2020 health policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, Health Policy, 126, (5), 2022, p427 - 437, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Rikke Siersbaek, Sarah Parker, Paul M Kavanagh, John Ford, Sara Burke, How and why do financial incentives contribute to helping people stop smoking? A realist review protocol, BMJ Open., 12, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
John Ford, Anna Gkiouleka, Isla Kuhn, Sarah Snowden, Fiona Head, Rikke Siersbaek, CLare Bambra, Rebecca Harmston, Sukaina Manji, Annie Moseley, Geoff WongGeoff Wong, Reducing health inequalities through general practice: protocol for a realist review (EQUALISE), BMJ Open , 11, (6), 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Siersbaek Rikke, Ford John Alexander, Burke Sara, Ní­ Cheallaigh Clí­ona, Thomas Steve, Contexts and mechanisms that promote access to healthcare for populations experiencing homelessness: a realist review , BMJ-Open, 11 , (4 ), 2021, pe043091 -, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
  

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Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Inclusion Health; Health Inequalities; Realist approaches