Johanna Pope

Johanna Pope is a PhD student with Evidence Synthesis Ireland, funded by the Health Research Board (HRB), and an affiliate PhD scholar of the HRB-TMRN. She is based in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Galway. Before coming to Galway, Johanna obtained a first-class Master of Public Health from University College Cork, and worked as a research assistant in the School of Public Health, including under a COVID-19 Emergency Evidence Response Service summer scholarship.

Johanna’s clinical and research experience has focused on public use of health information. Her doctoral research, “Vulnerability to misinformation in the Irish setting”, is supervised by Prof Declan Devane (University of Galway).