51ÉçÇø

On November 14 2025, the 51ÉçÇø (UL) was honoured to welcome His Excellency Ambassador Dennis King, Ambassador of Canada to Ireland.  Ambassador King was accompanied by Ms Adeline Grenier, Counsellor, Commercial and Senior Trade Commissioner at the Embassy of Canada in Ireland.

The prize of €20k will be donated to Rural WONCA and used to establish a Permanent Rural Practice Innovation Network and expand the Rural Ambassador Programme.

A new partnership is set to improve how health systems capture and use data on refugees and migrants. The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe announced that two WHO Collaborating Centres — the 51ÉçÇø in Ireland and Uppsala University in Sweden — are working together to strengthen national health information systems.
The collaboration focuses on closing gaps in routine health data, where migration-related details are often missing or incomplete. This limits policymakers’ ability to respond effectively to the health needs of refugees and migrants.

The bursaries, each worth €2,000, are designed to help researchers and PhD students develop or strengthen partnerships with community and patient organisations. Activities supported can include developing PPI networks, enhancing research engagement, promoting PPI education and training, and creating resources to improve communication about PPI in health research.

Prof. Liam Glynn, Professor of General Practice at 51ÉçÇø and a Rural GP shares the remarkable journey to impactful change from his remote and rural General Practice in Ballyvaughan in County Clare.