Catherine Comiskey
Professor
School of Nursing & Midwifery
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Professor Comiskey holds a B.A.(Mod) degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin University, Ireland and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in biomathematics with statistics and epidemiology from Dublin City University, Ireland. In 2007 she was appointed by Minister of Education and Science to serve on the board of The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, (IRCSET). Prof. Comiskey has over 20 years research experience in statistics and mathematics applied to healthcare. As former Director of Research, inaugural Director of the Centre for Practice and Healthcare Innovation (CPHI) and Professor of Healthcare Statistics at the School of Nursing and Midwifery she has had responsibility for developing and implementing the Schools strategic plan for research and is currently leading on directing and promoting innovation and research in healthcare practice. Professor Comiskey's personal research interests are in implementation, modelling of treatment and intervention outcomes with a special interest in substance misuse, infectious diseases and children.
Research Interest
Addiction; Addiction and substance abuse; Biostatistical methods; Cervical cancer; Child centred research questions, study design, data analysis; Clinical research, trials; Drug Abuse; Epidemiology; Health outcomes; Infectious diseases; Mathematical modelling; Population Studies; Substance Abuse; Surveys & Survey Research
Publications
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Gabrielle McKee, Margaret Codd, Orla Dempsey, Paul Gallagher, Catherine Comiskey, Describing the implementation of an innovative intervention and evaluating its effectiveness in increasing research capacity of advanced clinical nurses: Using the consolidated framework for implementation research, BMC Nursing, 16, (1), 2017, p21-
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Comiskey, C. M., Milnes, J and Daly, M, Parents who use drugs: the wellbeing of parent and child dyads among people receiving harm reduction interventions for opiate use. , Journal of Substance Use, 22, (2), 2017, p206-210
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Wiessing, L., Ferri, M., BÄ›láÄková, V., Carrieri P, Friedman S.R, Folch C, Dolan K, Galvin B, Vickerman P, Lazarus J.V, MravÄ ÃÂk V, Kretzschmar M, Sypsa V, Sarasa-Renedo A, UuskÃ"la A, Paraskevis D, Mendão L, Rossi D, van Gelder N, Mitcheson L, Paoli L, Gomez C.D, Milhet M, Dascalu N, Knight J, Hay G, Kalamara E, Simon R, Comiskey C, Rossi C, Griffiths P, Molinaro S, Franchini M, Siciliano V, Benedetti E, Perduca M, Ylli A, Anta G.B, Bravo Portela M.J, Indave I, Rácz J, Zábranskỳ T, Ã… tefunková M, Dávila P.F, Salekesin M, Vorobjov S, Dan M, Fierbinteanu C, Popescu D, Verdes L, Abagiu A.-O, Hatzakis A, Moudatsou M, Antypas T, Cadet-Tairou A, Collins A.M, Liddell D, Monitoring quality and coverage of harm reduction services for people who use drugs: A consensus study, Harm Reduction Journal, 14, (1), 2017, p19-
