Patricia Clarke

Dr Patricia Clarke is responsible for policy and for EU funding at the Health Research Board Ireland. She leads HRB Open Research, the open publishing platform for publicly-funded Irish health research. She Co-Chairs the Irish National Open Research Forum, acts as National Delegate for EU Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing and is a Member of the Science Europe Research Data Working Group. She graduated from Queens University Belfast and the University of Birmingham UK where she completed her doctorate in health behaviour change and an MSc in Computer Applications. She has a long-standing interest in policy and research having previously worked in the NHS in London and with the Centre for Cross Border Studies, a UK-Ireland cross-border policy research centre.