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ProfessorSharleen O'Reilly

(She/Her)

Professor

School of Agriculture and Food Science

Orcid identifier0000-0003-3547-6634 (opens in a new tab)⁠
  • Professor
    School of Agriculture and Food Science
  • 01 716 2157
  • University College Dublin, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Science Centre - South Belfield Dublin 4

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Prof Sharleen O'Reilly is a nutritionist and dietitian with research interests focused on research translation. Her research focused on chronic disease prevention for improved cardiometabolic health outcomes in high risk populations particularly women and children.

Sharleen has expertise in the area of knowledge translation/implementation science, public health nutrition, behaviour change methodologies, mixed methods research design, systematic review methods, gestational diabetes, heart disease and diabetes prevention, running randomised controlled trials and working across large multi-stakeholder projects. world.

Dr O'Reilly is an investigator on over €8M active research funding at present and currently leads a €4.4M EU Horizon2020 implementation project looking to improve mother and baby health in the first 1000 days.

GRANTS

  • PROJECT GRANT
    Smart Attendance: Co-Designing Digital Engagement Systems Across Accredited and Non-Accredited Health and Agricultural Sciences Programmes (opens in a new tab)⁠
    UCD College of Health and Agricultural Science1 Sep 2026 - 31 Aug 2027
    People funded by this grant:
  • PROJECT GRANT
    Bump2Baby and Me plus: Implementing a personalised, integrated remote system of care for women at high risk of gestational diabetes within routine maternity services in Ireland, Norway, Spain and Poland (B2B&Me+)
    Health Research Board (HRB)2 Jun 2025 - 1 Jun 2028
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Weighing in on breastmilk bioactives – the impact of breastmilk pro-inflammatory bioactives on infant growth and development
    University College Dublin (UCD)1 Sep 2023 - 31 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Visiting Professorship Award (opens in a new tab)⁠
    Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy3 Jul 2023 - 31 Dec 2024
    Visiting Professorship, Developing a life course perspective framework for diabetes prevention after pregnancy
  • GRANT
    Seed funding to attend the European Congress on Obesity 2021 Meeting to disseminate the multi-centre Bump2Baby study
    University College Dublin (UCD)5 Apr 2021 - 30 Mar 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Geraghty A,
    • O'Reilly S
  • GRANT
    GooD4Mum: A randomized controlled implementation trial to prevent T2DM after GDM in general practice
    National Health and Medical Research Council1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2025
    Partnership Project 2019
  • GRANT
    Implementing diabetes risk screening and prevention program in community pharmacies in the United Arab Emirates
    University of Sharjah and Al Qasimi Foundation25 Oct 2020 - 24 Oct 2022
    Targeted Research Project Grant
  • GRANT
    Implementation Action to prevent Diabetes from Bump 2 Baby (IMPACT DIABETES B2B): a low-resource system of care intervention for appropriate gestational weight gain and improved postnatal outcomes (IMPACT DIABETES B2B)
    Horizon 20201 Jan 2020 - 30 Jun 2025
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Holistic Approach in Primary care for PreventIng Memory Impairment aNd Dementia (HAPPI MIND)
    National Health and Medical Research Council1 Aug 2019 - 31 Jul 2024
    The aim is to implement a general practice-based holistic dementia risk assessment and health promotion program suitable for all Australians and evaluate its cost effectiveness. It is hypothesised that a general practice-based dementia risk assessment to create awareness and a tailored health promotion programme based on COM-B model, comprising self-management training, practical behaviour change techniques and GP/practice-nurse-coordinated interdisciplinary management of risk factors will lead to reduced dementia risk, compared to dementia risk assessment alone and usual care. A cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) will be carried out in 40 general practice clinics across New South Wales and Victoria. Community dwelling adults aged 45 years – 65 years with two or more risk factors for cognitive impairment will be recruited from each clinic to give a total of 600 participants. Change in risk factors for dementia measured using the Australian National University Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Index (ANU-ADRI) at 3 years will be the primary outcome. ANU- ADRI is an evidence-based, validated tool aimed at assessing individual exposure to risk factors known to be associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in late-life. The intervention will be implemented, evaluated and reported according to the Medical Research Council Framework for the Development and Evaluation of RCTs for Complex Interventions to Improve Health.
  • GRANT
    Approach to Market: Gestational Diabetes Budget Measure 2018-2019
    Department of Health1 Apr 2019 - 31 Jan 2022
    Commonwealth of Australia
  • GRANT
    Core Outcome Set and Core Contextual Factors in Diabetes After Pregnancy prevention trials (CORE-DAP)
    Canadian Institutes of Health Research30 Nov 2017 - 30 Aug 2018
    Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support
  • GRANT
    Bridging the gap for women with gestational diabetes: supporting prevention of Type 2 Diabetes through improved care of a high risk group. (opens in a new tab)⁠
    National Health and Medical Research Council1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • O'Reilly S
  • GRANT
    Life! diabetes prevention program: a randomised cluster control trial of its efficacy and cost effectiveness (opens in a new tab)⁠
    National Health and Medical Research Council1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Dunbar J,
    • O'Reilly S,
    • Bennett C,
    • Janus E,
    • Vartiainen E