Health research delivery and impact Key initiatives delivered during 2019 included:

• Funding a selection of new and existing awards worth more than €38 million, which are aligned to our strategic priorities; some examples include:

> Collaborative Doctoral Awards to support doctoral training programmes for future health researchers in a variety of specialties

 > Emerging Investigator Awards to boost the development of new and talented researchers and guide them to research independence

> Secondary Data Analysis Projects awards to develop research projects that answer policy and/or practice-relevant questions using secondary data

> Proof of Concept of a data environment for health and related research using the data, access, storage, sharing and linkage (DASSL) model.

• Delivering five evidence reviews and completing five evidence briefs for the Department of Health, encompassing areas such as vaccine injury redress programmes and investigating the impact of introducing a regionalised healthcare system.
• Achieving PubMed indexing for HRB Open Research, Ireland’s first open access publishing platform.
• Supporting more than twenty conferences and events through our sponsorship call.