Personnel
Director General
Professor Luke Clancy
Professor Luke Clancy (Consultant Respiratory Physician) is a founder and current director general of the TFRI. He has held posts as Medical Director of Peamount Chest Hospital and Associate Professor Respiratory Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. The diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer and the health effects of air pollution (outdoor and smoking) feature in his research work and he has made major research contributions in the areas of Tuberculosis, Asthma, Lung Cancer and Smoking Related Diseases. He was a key player in the Dublin Coal Ban in the 1980s, the Work Place Smoking Ban in 2004, and in the on-going quest for Tobacco Free Ireland. He has over 300 publications in peer review journals and is a regular contributor to various international medical journals. He continues his advocacy role for better health.
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Professor Luke Clancy
Professor Luke Clancy (Consultant Respiratory Physician) is a founder and current director general of the TFRI. He has held posts as Medical Director of Peamount Chest Hospital and Associate Professor Respiratory Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. The diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer and the health effects of air pollution (outdoor and smoking) feature in his research work and he has made major research contributions in the areas of Tuberculosis, Asthma, Lung Cancer and Smoking Related Diseases. He was a key player in the Dublin Coal Ban in the 1980s, the Work Place Smoking Ban in 2004, and in the on-going quest for Tobacco Free Ireland. He has over 300 publications in peer review journals and is a regular contributor to various international medical journals. He continues his advocacy role for better health.
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Director of Research
Professor Joan Hanafin
Professor Joan Hanafin is a Sociologist, Educator and Mediator with over 30 years of experience in social sciences research. Director of Research at TFRI, TU Dublin, she is also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Visiting Research Fellow with the Inclusion in Education and Society Research Group at Trinity College Dublin and was Senior Lecturer at University College Cork. Educated at Trinity College Dublin, National University of Ireland Galway, University of Limerick, University College Dublin, and Université Paris 7, she studied languages, music, psychology, education, and sociology. She is an expert on listening, a certified innovator, and author of several books. Her Sociology work on inclusive social justice, families and education has been published in the International Journal of Inclusive Education, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Frontiers in Psychology, International Studies in Sociology of Education, Pedagogy, Culture and Society, and Higher Education, and her Epidemiology work on tobacco control and on young people and substance use has been published in journals such as Progress in Respiratory Research, BMC Public Health, Tobacco Induced Diseases, Scientific Reports, and The Lancet. Dr Hanafin is co-Principal Investigator of ESPAD Ireland 2024, the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs. She is PI of the Disabilities Inequalities & Smoking project and also PI of the project, Nicotine Use in Older Teenagers - An Emerging Public Health Problem.
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Professor Joan Hanafin
Professor Joan Hanafin is a Sociologist, Educator and Mediator with over 30 years of experience in social sciences research. Director of Research at TFRI, TU Dublin, she is also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Visiting Research Fellow with the Inclusion in Education and Society Research Group at Trinity College Dublin and was Senior Lecturer at University College Cork. Educated at Trinity College Dublin, National University of Ireland Galway, University of Limerick, University College Dublin, and Université Paris 7, she studied languages, music, psychology, education, and sociology. She is an expert on listening, a certified innovator, and author of several books. Her Sociology work on inclusive social justice, families and education has been published in the International Journal of Inclusive Education, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Frontiers in Psychology, International Studies in Sociology of Education, Pedagogy, Culture and Society, and Higher Education, and her Epidemiology work on tobacco control and on young people and substance use has been published in journals such as Progress in Respiratory Research, BMC Public Health, Tobacco Induced Diseases, Scientific Reports, and The Lancet. Dr Hanafin is co-Principal Investigator of ESPAD Ireland 2024, the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs. She is PI of the Disabilities Inequalities & Smoking project and also PI of the project, Nicotine Use in Older Teenagers - An Emerging Public Health Problem.
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Research Assistant
Ms Salome Sunday
Salome Sunday is a research assistant at TFRI and has over 3 years of experience in epidemiology and biostatistics. She holds a Master of Public Health degree with concentration in Advanced Epidemiology and Biostatistics from University College Cork. Her article "Impact of carers' smoking status on childhood obesity in the Growing Up in Ireland Cohort Study" has been published on IJERPH. She nurtures a keen interest in the area of tobacco control and second-hand smoke exposure. Salome is currently carrying out research for a PhD titled "Explaining the halt in the decline in adolescent smoking in Ireland within the context of Tobacco Control interventions, and recent developments in relation to e-cigarettes” under the supervision of Prof Joan Hanafin and Prof Luke Clancy. She is a Government of Ireland Irish Research Council Scholar with funding awarded for her doctoral research.
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Ms Salome Sunday
Salome Sunday is a research assistant at TFRI and has over 3 years of experience in epidemiology and biostatistics. She holds a Master of Public Health degree with concentration in Advanced Epidemiology and Biostatistics from University College Cork. Her article "Impact of carers' smoking status on childhood obesity in the Growing Up in Ireland Cohort Study" has been published on IJERPH. She nurtures a keen interest in the area of tobacco control and second-hand smoke exposure. Salome is currently carrying out research for a PhD titled "Explaining the halt in the decline in adolescent smoking in Ireland within the context of Tobacco Control interventions, and recent developments in relation to e-cigarettes” under the supervision of Prof Joan Hanafin and Prof Luke Clancy. She is a Government of Ireland Irish Research Council Scholar with funding awarded for her doctoral research.
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INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATES
Dr. Robert Tomšik
Research Fellow, Bratislava
PaedDr. Robert Tomšik, Ph.D. is a Slovak psychologist, psychometrician, and researcher specialising in personality pathology, particularly the Dark Triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy), and in quantitative research methodologies. His work focuses on psychometrics, data modelling, and the statistical analysis of large-scale datasets. He is the author of numerous academic books, including university-level textbooks focused on social science research methodology and statistical data analysis. His research has been published in journals such as Scientific Reports, Thinking & Reasoning, Assessment, Journal of Personality, Personality and Individual Differences, International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, and Czechoslovak Psychology. He serves as the analytical and methodological lead for the Slovak arm of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD), contributing to national-level data analysis and research outputs. He is a research fellow and methodologist at the Research Institute for Child Psychology and Pathopsychology (VÚDPaP) in Bratislava. More recently, he has collaborated with the TobaccoFree Research Institute on research focusing on gender and substance use.
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Research Fellow, Bratislava
PaedDr. Robert Tomšik, Ph.D. is a Slovak psychologist, psychometrician, and researcher specialising in personality pathology, particularly the Dark Triad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy), and in quantitative research methodologies. His work focuses on psychometrics, data modelling, and the statistical analysis of large-scale datasets. He is the author of numerous academic books, including university-level textbooks focused on social science research methodology and statistical data analysis. His research has been published in journals such as Scientific Reports, Thinking & Reasoning, Assessment, Journal of Personality, Personality and Individual Differences, International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, and Czechoslovak Psychology. He serves as the analytical and methodological lead for the Slovak arm of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD), contributing to national-level data analysis and research outputs. He is a research fellow and methodologist at the Research Institute for Child Psychology and Pathopsychology (VÚDPaP) in Bratislava. More recently, he has collaborated with the TobaccoFree Research Institute on research focusing on gender and substance use.
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Dr. Zubair Kabir
Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology & Public Health, University College Cork
Dr. Zubair Kabir graduated in Medicine (MBBS) in 1990 from India and later obtained an MD in Public Health Medicine in 1996. Before completing both Masters (MSc) and PhD in Trinity College Dublin, he had worked as a Senior Resident in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and as a primary care physician in Odisha (India). His post-doc positions (2004-2012) in Trinity, TobaccoFree Research Institute Ireland, and Harvard School of Public Health were primarily focussed on non-communicable disease epidemiology and in particular, tobacco control. He was a NCI-HRB joint cancer research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health (2006-2008) and he also has a joint affiliation as a Visiting Scientist with the Centre for Global Tobacco Control, Harvard School of Public Health since 2008. He is on the editorial board of the BMC Public Health, International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health (IJERPH), and Editor-in-Chief of an Open Access specialist journal-Tobacco Use Insights. He was Principal Investigator on several HRB-funded research grants between 2006 and 2012 , and a co- Principal Investigator on research grants from the FAMRI (US), the Irish Heart Foundation, and the Royal City of Dublin Hospital Trust from 2000 onwards. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH), United Kingdom, a member of the American College of Epidemiology (MACE) a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (RAMI), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (RSTMH). He also sits on the Membership Board of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology & Public Health, University College Cork
Dr. Zubair Kabir graduated in Medicine (MBBS) in 1990 from India and later obtained an MD in Public Health Medicine in 1996. Before completing both Masters (MSc) and PhD in Trinity College Dublin, he had worked as a Senior Resident in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and as a primary care physician in Odisha (India). His post-doc positions (2004-2012) in Trinity, TobaccoFree Research Institute Ireland, and Harvard School of Public Health were primarily focussed on non-communicable disease epidemiology and in particular, tobacco control. He was a NCI-HRB joint cancer research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health (2006-2008) and he also has a joint affiliation as a Visiting Scientist with the Centre for Global Tobacco Control, Harvard School of Public Health since 2008. He is on the editorial board of the BMC Public Health, International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health (IJERPH), and Editor-in-Chief of an Open Access specialist journal-Tobacco Use Insights. He was Principal Investigator on several HRB-funded research grants between 2006 and 2012 , and a co- Principal Investigator on research grants from the FAMRI (US), the Irish Heart Foundation, and the Royal City of Dublin Hospital Trust from 2000 onwards. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH), United Kingdom, a member of the American College of Epidemiology (MACE) a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (RAMI), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (RSTMH). He also sits on the Membership Board of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Ms Sheila Keogan
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Sheila Keogan M.Phil, RGN is an Irish healthcare professional and researcher primarily known for her extensive work in tobacco control and respiratory health. She joined the TobaccoFree Research Institute, then the Research Institute For a TobaccoFree Society, at its inception in 2002 and served as Director of Research and Communications until 2019. She spent over 30 years as a Respiratory Nurse Specialist at St James's Hospital Dublin, where she served as a Clinical Trials Co-ordinator and Nurse Manager. She has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed studies focusing on public health policy and the effects of smoking. Her notable research areas include Smoking Cessation, Maternal Health, Tobacco Control, Public Policy, and E-cigarette Use.
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Clinical Nurse Specialist
Sheila Keogan M.Phil, RGN is an Irish healthcare professional and researcher primarily known for her extensive work in tobacco control and respiratory health. She joined the TobaccoFree Research Institute, then the Research Institute For a TobaccoFree Society, at its inception in 2002 and served as Director of Research and Communications until 2019. She spent over 30 years as a Respiratory Nurse Specialist at St James's Hospital Dublin, where she served as a Clinical Trials Co-ordinator and Nurse Manager. She has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed studies focusing on public health policy and the effects of smoking. Her notable research areas include Smoking Cessation, Maternal Health, Tobacco Control, Public Policy, and E-cigarette Use.
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Ms Aisling McGowan
Chief Respiratory Physiologist at Connolly Hospital
Clinical tutor and lecturer on the clinical measurement science TU Dublin
Ms Aisling McGowan joined the department of Physics in DIT in 2013 after 24 yrs working in healthcare. She is a half time Clinical tutor and lecturer on the clinical measurement science undergraduate programme and Chief Respiratory Physiologist at Connolly Hospital in The Respiratory & Sleep Diagnostics Department, Blanchardstown. She has a MSc in Physical Sciences in Medicine and BSc in Experimental Physics. She has worked as a Clinical Scientist in healthcare for 26 yrs, including 8 years as a division manager of a medical device supplier. She is currently a committee member of the European Respiratory Society Spirometry Training Committee and the education committee and executive of the Irish Institute of Clinical Measurement Science Respiratory Faculty. She has been actively involved in clinical research throughout her career.
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Chief Respiratory Physiologist at Connolly Hospital
Clinical tutor and lecturer on the clinical measurement science TU Dublin
Ms Aisling McGowan joined the department of Physics in DIT in 2013 after 24 yrs working in healthcare. She is a half time Clinical tutor and lecturer on the clinical measurement science undergraduate programme and Chief Respiratory Physiologist at Connolly Hospital in The Respiratory & Sleep Diagnostics Department, Blanchardstown. She has a MSc in Physical Sciences in Medicine and BSc in Experimental Physics. She has worked as a Clinical Scientist in healthcare for 26 yrs, including 8 years as a division manager of a medical device supplier. She is currently a committee member of the European Respiratory Society Spirometry Training Committee and the education committee and executive of the Irish Institute of Clinical Measurement Science Respiratory Faculty. She has been actively involved in clinical research throughout her career.
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