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Professor Susan Smith

Professor of General Practice (1991) (Public Health & Primary Care)
      
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Professor Susan Smith

Professor of General Practice (1991) (Public Health & Primary Care)

 susmith@tcd.ie

 


Susan Smith is Professor of General Practice at Trinity College Dublin and works as a General Practitioner at Inchicore Family Doctors in Dublin 8. She did her undergraduate medical degree in TCD and then did GP training in Ireland and the UK, followed by a period working as an academic GP in Australia. She retuned to Ireland where she has worked as an academic GP in UCD, RCSI and TCD and continues to work as a GP at Inchicore Family Doctors in Dublin 8. Prof Smith is the Associate Director of the HRB Primary Care Clinical Trials Network Ireland and the Clinical Lead for HRB CICER, which provides evidence synthesis supports for the National Clinical Effectiveness Committee. She is currently the PI for a national cluster RCT examining two interventions for people with multimorbidity and is PI on a HRB Evidence for Policy Award exploring community based exercise programmes for stroke survivors. She is one of the coordinators of the Deep End Ireland group of GPs working in disadvantaged communities.
  Clinical research, trials   Community health and general practice   Primary care
Project Title
 HRB Collaborative Doctoral Award in Multimorbidity
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Funding Agency
HRB
Project Title
 Informing National Policy for physical activity based secondary prevention of stroke in IREland (INsPIRE)
From
1st Dec 2025
To
Summary
Ireland"s national Stroke Strategy emphasises the importance of enhancing the secondary prevention of stroke and ensuring national, equitable, patient-centred delivery of services. The INsPIRE Programme aims to provide evidence to inform policy on the effective promotion of physical activity (PA) in community settings to improve health outcomes for stroke in Ireland. In particular, the programme will update existing international evidence on the clinical and cost effectiveness of PA interventions in stroke, map existing secondary prevention stroke services and leverage an existing study evaluating a PA programme for people poststroke (the ExWell Stroke study). This will provide critical implementation data on feasibility, referral pathways, uptake, engagement, and programme retention. These data will be used alongside existing effectiveness and cost-effectiveness evidence from the evidence synthesis to inform health economic modelling exploring costs to develop a budget impact analysis. This evidence will be used to undertake a GRADE Evidenceto- Decision Framework for developing policy recommendations based on the REAIM and CFIR implementation frameworks. Public and Patient Involvement is interwoven throughout each element of the programme and will be coordinated specifically in a dedicated work package to maximise its impact. The work will be conducted across five work packages: " WP1: Evidence synthesis on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of different approaches to community-based PA interventions following a stroke " WP2: Mapping and implementation of PA for stroke in Ireland " WP3: Cost and budget impact analysis of a stroke exercise programme in Ireland " WP4: Policy recommendations " WP5: Public and patient involvement and knowledge translation The INsPIRE team includes experienced multidisciplinary clinical, evidence synthesis, implementation science, health economics, and health policy researchers and key knowledge users and public and patient stakeholders. The proposed programme will significantly inform and influence policy for exercise-based secondary prevention of stroke in community settings in Ireland.
Funding Agency
Health REsearch Board
Project Title
 HRB Evidence Synthesis to support Clinical practice Guideline development (HRB-ESCG)
From
2024
To
2028
Summary
Evidence synthesis to support National Clinical Guidelines. HIQA are lead applicants
Funding Agency
Health Research Board

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Humphries, Niamh, Hanlon, Holly R, O"Callaghan, Mike, Byrne, John-Paul, Cullen, Laura, Murphy, Andrew W, Smith, Susan M, Ní Shé, Éidín, Changing Working Patterns in Irish general practice: Findings from a Qualitative Remote Ethnographic Study, Health Policy, 164, 2026, p105505 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Waleed Serhan, John Paul Byrne, Melissa K. Sharp, Michelle O"Neill, Susan M. Smith, Marion Cullinan, Máirín Ryan, Barbara Clyne, Voices in clinical guideline development: a qualitative study of Irish guideline developers" perspectives on developing recommendations, Evidence & Policy, 2026, p1 - 21, p1-21 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Cronin, Thomas, Smith, Susan M, Travers, John, Delivering a primary care intervention to reduce frailty and improve resilience in people experiencing homelessness: a pilot feasibility study, BJGP Open, 2026, pBJGPO.2025.0271 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Walsh, Sharon, Gillespie, Paddy, Hobbins, Anna, O"Neill, Ciaran, McCarthy, Caroline, Moriarty, Frank, Clyne, Barbara, Boland, Fiona, Smith, Susan M., , , Analysing the impact of complex multimorbidity on health-related quality of life, Quality of Life Research, 35, (2), 2026, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Dullea A, Carrigan M, O'Sullivan L, Delaunois I, Clark H, Boudou M, Giusti M, Walsh KA, Harrington P, Smith SM, Ryan M, Sensitivity and Precision of Search Strategies Built Using a Text-Mining Word Frequency Tool (PubReMiner) Compared to Current Best Practice for Building Search Strategies: A Study Within a Review (SWAR), Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods, 4, (2), 2026, pe70074 , Notes: [https://doi.org/10.1002/cesm.70074 https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/TheNorthernIrelandNetworkforTrialsMethodologyResearch/FileStore/SWARFileStore/SWAR26%20A%20Dullea,%20M%20Carrigan,%20S%20Smith,%20L%20O%E2%80%99Sullivan,%20M%20Giusti,%20I%20Delaunois,%20H%20Clark,%20K%20Walsh,%20P%20Harrington,%20M%20Ryan%20(2023%20MAR%201%202010).pdf], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL  URL
Hanlon, Holly Rose, Shé, Éidín Ní, Murphy, Andrew W., Byrne, John-Paul, Cullen, Laura, Smith, Susan, O"Callaghan, Mike, Humphries, Niamh, "There is never any rest, never enough time and too much to do": a qualitative study of GP work intensity in an Irish context, BMC Primary Care, 27, (1), 2026, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
David G. Loughrey, Kaye Stapleton, Andrea Bickerdike, Michael Byrne, Susan Calnan, Con Burns, Eva Devaney, Mark Dooris, Sarah Kennedy, Caroline Mahon, Martina Mullin, Cian O Neill, Mary O"Neill, Audrey Tierney, Catherine Woods, David Mockler, Catherine Norton, S. Van den Broucke, Vicki Squires, Susan Smith, Lena Doherty, Aoife Noonan, Catherine Darker, Toolkits for assessing health promotion in higher education institutions: a global scoping review with narrative synthesis, International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 2026, p1 - 20, p1-20 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Doody, Paul, Martin, Ruth, Tyner, Barrie, Carrigan, Marie, Larkin, Celine, O'Neill, Michelle, Smith, Susan M., Ryan, Máirín, National and International Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Obesity in Adults: A Systematic Review, Obesity Reviews, 2026, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Aluga, David, Gorry, Claire, Barry, Michael, Byrne, Paula, Gillespie, Paddy, Smith, Susan M., Unveiling trends: insights into medicines reimbursement recommendations and health technology management in Ireland (2018"2023), International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 42, (1), 2026, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Ferdous, Farzana, Naigaga, Desire Alice, Arthurs, Niamh, Almulla, Mohammad, Sofiany, Maram, Oluwajuyigbe, Oluwatofunmi, Waldron, Paula, Tully, Louise, O"Brien, Sarah, Smith, Susan M., Walsh, Aisling, O"Gorman, Clodagh S., Baur, Louise A, O"Malley, Grace, Implementing childhood obesity management in Ireland: stakeholder perspectives, priorities and recommendations for practice, BMC Health Services Research, 2026, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Creane, D., Hayes, C., O Ciardha, D., Smith, S. M., Campbell, A. & Mc Carthy, N., Health data to support local communities, 1, Trinity College Dublin, January 2024, 2024, p1 - 12, Notes: [Demonstration of marked disparity in presence of asthma among residents of a housing complex and those living nearby. This is relevant for housing policy and the importance of granular health data to identify health needs.], Report, PUBLISHED
Paul G, Smith SM, Whitford D, O'Dowd T., Can a peer-care model improve diabetes outcomes?, Diabetes Voice, 50, (4), 2005, p20 - 21, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Susan M Smith, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  


Prof Smith's research interests include improving outcomes for patients with multimorbidity and related clinical issues such as medicines management, including access to medicines. She has been the PI or Co-PI on eight RCTs of interventions for chronic disease management in Irish primary care settings. She is an editor and author with the Cochrane Collaboration and is an advocate for Evidence Based Medicine and Shared Decision Making. She also has an interest in health equity and coordinates the Deep End Ireland Group, which advocates for appropriate primary care services for socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. During the COVID-19 pandemic she has been a member of the HIQA COVID19 Expert Advisory Group, which provides evidence based guidance to inform public policy and guidance.