Dr. Irina Kinchin

Dr Kinchin is an Assistant Research Professor at the Center for Health Policy and Management at Trinity College Dublin. Dr Kinchin is a health economist by training, and much of her research is dedicated to the study of populations with complex needs, particularly related to their carers and mental health, in the end-of-life and neurodegenerative settings. Dr Kinchin's current work is focused on researching a 'beyond health' approach to policy and priority setting in dementia and at the end-of-life, supported by the Health Research Board award. She previously held research positions with leading research centres, including the Centre for Health Economics and Evaluation at the University of Technology Sydney, the Centre for Indigenous Health Equity Research at Central Queensland University and the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Centre at James Cook University in Australia. Dr Kinchin has over ten years of applied health economics research and evaluation experience in Australia and Ireland. Her work has culminated in a prestigious award to become an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute. She has been recognised as one of the top 12 leading health researchers in Ireland by the Health Research Board award. Her total grant funding to date is >€3.5M (over 25 collaborative grants and 4 personal awards). She has published in leading clinical journals (e.g. Alzheimer's and Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, The Lancet, The Lancet Psychiatry) and presented at international conferences in the health economics space. She has served on the scientific review panel for the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) 2017, 2019, 2021; and the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) 2022. Through the world-leading specialist MSc training in health economics (University of York, UK) and from working in international research centres, Dr Kinchin brings a broad technical skillset, which includes Research Design and Impact Evaluation, Evidence-Based Health Service Research, Outcomes Research, Economic Evaluation and its Critical Appraisal, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Health Technology Assessment, Randomised Control Trials, Decision-Analytic Modelling, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis. Dr Kinchin's international expertise has been recognised by her appointment as a health economist to the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) National Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) sub-committee in the UK. She also serves as a panel member on the independent grant assessment committee Clinician Researchers Initiative for the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) in Australia. Committee/panel activities: Methodologist (Health economics) - NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Health Research Sub-Committee B (2022 to present) Editorial roles: Associate Editor - Quality of Life Research (2022 to present) Associate Editor - International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2022 to present)

  ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA   DEMENTIA   DEMENTIA SERVICES   DEMENTIA, NEURODEGENERATIVE   Dementia/ Alzheimer's Disease   EARLY ONSET DEMENTIA   ECONOMIC ANALYSIS   ECONOMIC EVALUATION   health outcomes research   LEWY BODY DEMENTIA   MENTAL HEALTH   Older Adults - dementia, human and technology supports   Older Adults - ageing in place, dementia, aging and technolo   Palliative and end of life care   Palliative Care and Dementia   PARKINSONISM-DEMENTIA