PhD Candidate
School of Population Health, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin 2, Ireland., Ireland
John is a pharmacist (B.Sc. Pharm; MPharm; MPSI) with experience working in both hospital and community settings. He is a current SPHeRE PhD candidate based in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and is funded under the prestigious Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme. John's PhD research is focussed on the Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics of Drug-Drug Interactions in Older Community-Dwelling Adults, mainly using pharmacy refill claims data. His supervisors are Prof Kathleen E Bennett and Dr Caitriona Cahir.
A member of the EMeRGe research group (http://www.emerge.ie/), Johns' research interests include: pharmacoepidemiology; pharmacoeconomics; causal inference; health-outcomes research; drug utilisation research; pharmacovigilance; and the utility of data science to improve medication safety.
John has previously worked with the Health Products Regulatory Authority to examine the impact of an EU-wide regulatory intervention on the rate of valproate use among women of child-bearing potential in Ireland. He is currently collaborating with European research colleagues to examine the prevalence of "severe" drug-drug interactions in older community-dwellers across Ireland, Italy, and Spain.
