Trinity Centre for Reproductive Sciences and Women\u2019s Health to shine a spotlight on often overlooked conditions like PMOS, endometriosis, infertility, abnormal uterine bleeding and menopause-related health needs<\/p>\n
Transforming clinical care, education and policy in women\u2019s and reproductive health is the ambition of a new Irish transdisciplinary research centre.<\/p>\n
The Trinity Centre for Reproductive Sciences and Women\u2019s Health (TCRW) brings together more than 70 clinicians, scientists, social scientists and policy-relevant researchers across 20 disciplines at Trinity College Dublin and its clinical partners, including St James\u2019s Hospital, Tallaght University Hospital, the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, and Children\u2019s Health Ireland at Crumlin.<\/p>\n
The initiative will create a coordinated research ecosystem spanning discovery science, clinical research and policy in addressing important evidence gaps in women\u2019s and reproductive health.<\/p>\n
The centre will be led by co-directors Prof Cliona O\u2019Farrelly, Dr Lisa Owens and Dr Michelle Lavin.<\/p>\n
\u201cTCRW will bring together expertise across reproductive sciences and women\u2019s health to create a more connected and collaborative research community,\u201d said Dr Lavin, who is a consultant haematologist at the National Coagulation Centre in St James\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe measure of our success will not simply be publications or research grants; ultimately, it will be improved evidence, earlier diagnosis, better treatments, more equitable healthcare and better outcomes for people affected by reproductive health conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The centre\u2019s objectives are organised around five integrated areas: research; shaping clinical practice and policymaking; dedicated policy brokerage and structured engagement; education and training; and public engagement and visibility.<\/p>\n
Its three principal research pillars are translational reproductive science; lifespan reproductive research; and menstrual disorders and fertility, with inclusion, equity and access embedded across all three.<\/p>\n
The centre will collaborate closely with patient representatives and advocacy groups, ensuring that lived experience and patient priorities inform research priorities and engagement activities.<\/p>\n
The Centre was officially launched this week by Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that, for sustained improvements in reproductive and women\u2019s health, we need to build research infrastructure to generate the evidence on which those services are based,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI congratulate Trinity College Dublin and St James\u2019s Hospital on their leadership in opening this centre which addresses a critical societal and medical issue. This centre will have a real impact on evidence gaps and delayed diagnosis and I look forward to continuing to engage with the centre as we \u2013 together \u2013 work to improve our health services.\u201d<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s health and reproductive health have historically been under-represented in research, contributing to important evidence gaps, delayed diagnosis and inconsistent care pathways.<\/p>\n
Conditions including polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), endometriosis, infertility, menopause-related health needs and abnormal uterine bleeding carry substantial personal, societal and economic burdens. Male reproductive health and subfertility are also comparatively underexplored, despite their importance to infertility and family health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trinity Centre for Reproductive Sciences and Women\u2019s Health to shine a spotlight on often overlooked conditions like PMOS,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2121,54988,103,61,15573,60,12359,277564,11090,277565],"class_list":["post-655415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-womens-health","tag-endometriosis","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-infertility","tag-ireland","tag-menopause","tag-polyendocrine-metabolic-ovarian-syndrome","tag-reproductive-health","tag-trinity-centre-for-reproductive-sciences-and-womens-health-tcrw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}