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Dr. Ann Nolan

Assistant Professor (Sch Office - Social Work & Social Policy)

 nolana13@tcd.ie

 3531896 8727


Biography

Ann Nolan is an Assistant Professor in Social Policy with a research and teaching portfolio in global health. She is a technical specialist in HIV and sexual health with research in sexual and reproductive health and rights; the politics of health; inclusion health, and the regulation of sexuality and other contested policy domains. Ann is a former Executive Director and Chairperson of HIV Ireland Ltd and an advocate for the rights of sexual minorities and people living with HIV. She has led the development of global policy frameworks for adolescents and most-at-risk young people with UNICEF and UNAIDS, and has been an advisor to Ireland's International Development Cooperation programme at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Irish Aid. As team lead for social science research in the Houses of the Oireachtas she supported dialogue and debate with evidence around the Termination of Pregnancy Bill, safe access zones, school-based sex education and good governance for health through the Dáil and Seanad. Ann brings to academia a lengthy professional career that has emphasised the relationship between evidence and policy at national, bilateral and multilateral levels. She was among the first mature-student graduates of the B.A. modular night-degree in University College Dublin in 1991 from which she commenced an MSc in Social Policy funded by the European Commission. She was awarded a Postgraduate Research Studentship by the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin, to undertake doctoral research in HIV and sexual health in Ireland from which she graduated in 2014.

Research Tags

  ABORTION   Health policy analysis   HIV AND AIDS   Reproductive health   Sexuality and sexual health   SOCIAL POLICY

Research Projects

 Engaging Adolescents in Sexual Health Services in Ethiopia (EASE)
 The Political Economy of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in LMICs
 COVID-19 Toolbox for an 'all island' (CONTAIN) project: A cross border analysis in Ireland to disentangle psychological, behavioural, media and Governmental responses to COVID-19
 SASA! Raising Voices in South Sudan
 Period Poverty in Ireland

Representations

Details Date
Academic research representative on the Health Service Executive National Sexual Health Strategy implementation group 2020
Trinity representative on the European Global Health Research and Innovation Network (EGHRIN) as part of LERU January
Editorial Board of PLOS One Global Public Health August 2021
Irina Kinchin, Sharon Walsh, Rachel Dinh, Margaret Kapuwa, Sean P Kennelly, Ann-Marie Miller, Ann Nolan, Sean O"Dowd, Laura O"Philbin, Suzanne Timmons, Iracema Leroi, Dissonance in the face of Alzheimer's breakthroughs: Clinician and lay stakeholder acceptance, concerns and willingness to pay for emerging disease-modifying therapies, The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2024, Journal Article, IN_PRESS
Darker CD, Mullin M, Doyle L, Tanner M, McGrath D, Doherty L, Dreyer-Gibney K, Barrett EM, Flynn D, Murphy P, Ivers JH, Burke E, Ryan M, McCarron M, Murphy P, Sheils O, Hevey D, Leen A, Keogh L, Walls B, Bennett AE, Petersen F, Nolan A, Barry JM., Developing a health promoting university in Trinity College Dublin-overview and outline process evaluation, Health Promotion International, 38, (4), 2023, p1 - 14, p1-14 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
PLOS ONE Global Public Health, San Francisco, California, Public Library of Science, [eds.], 2022, Editorial Board, PUBLISHED
Martin Dempster, Nicola O'Connell, Christopher D. Graham, Cliodhna O'Connor, Lina Zgaga, Emma Burke, Luke Mather, Gail Nicolson, Joe Barry, Gabriel Scally, Ann Nolan. Katy Tobin, Philip Crowley and Catherine D. Darker, Non-adherence to COVID-19 containment behaviours: results from an all-Ireland telephone surv, BMC Public Health, 22, (898), 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Camille Rich, Webster Mavhu, Nadine Ferris France, Vongai Munatsi, Elaine Byrne, Nicola Willis, Ann Nolan, Exploring the beliefs, experiences and impacts of HIV-related self-stigma amongst adolescents and young adults living with HIV in Harare, Zimbabwe: A qualitative study, PLOS ONE, 10, (1371), 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Vallières F, Murphy J, McBride O, Shevlin M, Gilmore B, Travers Á, Nolan A, Butter S, Karatzias T, Bentall R, Hyland P., The role of psychosocial factors in explaining sex differences in major depression and generalized anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic., BMC Public Health, 17, (22 (1)), 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
"They have their bailiwick and I have mine": the leadership of Mary O'Rouke in the transformation of policy for school-based sex education in the era of AIDS in Ireland in, editor(s)Rosemary Morgan, Sulzan Bali, Roopa Dhatt, Kate Hawkins, Mehr Manzoor , Women in Global Health Leadership: Power and Transformation, Geneva, Springer Nature, 2021, [Ann Nolan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Salla Atkins, Ananya Tina Banerjee, Kathleen Bachynski, Amrita Daftary, Gauri Desai, Aeyal Gross, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Emily Mendenhall, Benjamin Mason Meier, Stephanie A Nixon, Ann Nolan, Tia M Palermo, Alexandra Phelan, Oksana Pyzik, Pamela Roach, Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Claire J. Standley, Gavin Yamey, Seye Abimbola, Madhukar Pai, Using the COVID-19 pandemic to reimagine global health teaching in high-income countries, BMJ Global Health, 6, (e005649), 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Nolan Ann, Burke Sara, Burke Emma, Darker Catherine, Barry Joe, O'Connell Nicola, Zgaga Lina, Mather Luke, Nicolson Gail, Dempster Martin, Graham Christopher, Crowley Philip, O'Connor Cliodhna, Tobin Katy, Scally Gabriel, Obstacles to Public Health that even Pandemics cannot Overcome: The , Irish Studies in International Affairs , 32 , (2 ), 2021, p225 - 246 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Cliodhna O'Connor, Nicola O'Connell, Emma Burke, Martin Dempster, Christopher D. Graham, Gabriel Scally, Lina Zgaga, Ann Nolan, Gail Nicolson, Luke Mather, Joseph Barry, Philip Crowley, Catherine D. Darker,, Bordering on crisis: A qualitative analysis of focus group, social media, and news media perspectives on the Republic of Ireland-Northern Ireland border during the 'first wave' of the COVID-19 pandemic, Social Science and Medicine, 282, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
  

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Whitney Mphangwe, Ann Nolan, Frédérique Vallieres, Mairéad Finn, How do gender norms contribute to stunting in Ntchisi District, Malawi? A qualitative study, medRxiv, doi: https://doi.org, 2023, Journal Article, PRESENTED
Economic and Social Research Institute with the Shared Island Unit, Department of An Taoiseach, The Politics of COVID-19 on the Island of Ireland Launch of the Shared Island Initiative funded project on primary care in Ireland and Northern Ireland on Thursday, 10th March., Launch of the Shared Island Initiative funded project on primary care in Ireland and Northern Ireland , 10th March , 2022, ESRI and the Shared Island Unit, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Ann Nolan, The Gay Community Response to HIV and AIDS in Ireland, Pride in Research, TBSI, 16th June , 2022, TCD LGBTQI+ Society, Notes: [Awarded second prize for presentation by the audience of students present], Invited Talk, PRESENTED
United Nations Population Fund, State of the World's Population 2021, Launch of the State of the World's Population Report, Virtual, 2021, UNFPA and the IFPA, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
HIV Ireland Ltd and the Gay Health Network, The role of the gay community in the response to HIV and AIDS in Ireland, Irish AIDS Day 2021, Virtual, 15th June , 2021, HIV Ireland Ltd, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Centre for Cross Border Studies, The Politics of Covid-19 on the island of Ireland, CCBS 22nd Annual Conference, Belfast, 24th September , 2021, CCBS, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Professor Luke O'Neill, Professor Ian Young, Ass. Professor Ann Nolan and Pat Kenny, What Has the Science Taught Us? The last 18 months of pandemic and the state of global health, scientific advance, social awareness & medical advance. Moving toward new understandings of the previous months and how social realities aid understandings of advance in scientific development?, The Good Summit 2021, Trinity College Dublin, 27th October , 2021, The Good Summit, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Dr Ann Nolan, Dr Samuel Egyeigh, Jeremy Whitty, Dr Mirgissa Kaba, Decolonizing Global Health, Global Health Education Symposium, Virtual, 22nd October, 2021, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Irish Council of General Practitioners, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Ann Nolan, The politics of COVID-19 on the Island of Ireland, RCPI Lecture Hour, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, 24th September , 2021, RCPI, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Maeve Scally and Ann Nolan, Report to World Vision Ireland on a Community Development intervention for gender-based violence in a humanitarian setting in South-Sudan during the COVID-19 pandemic. , Dublin, December, 2020, Report, PUBLISHED

  

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