The All-Ireland Infectious Diseases cohort study (AIID Cohort), led by Prof Paddy Mallon is enrolling patients at a number of Irish Hospitals with infectious diseases, including Covid-19. The AIID Cohort is a multicentre, prospective, longitudinal, observational cohort that enrols consecutive adult subjects (>18 years old) attending hospitals services for management of infections. The AIID Cohort recruits from eleven clinical centres across Ireland. Subjects provide consent for use of routine clinical and laboratory data for research.
In addition, subjects’ consent to collection and biobanking of biological samples, including respiratory samples such as nasopharyngeal swabs. The AIID Cohort is approved by local institutional review boards and all participants provide written, informed consent. Data and samples within the AIID Cohort are accessed through standardised Data Access Guidelines and all approved Data Access Requests are approved by the local Ethics Committee.
The benefits of this study are to provide a flexible platform to respond to a quickly changing infectious disease states like the COVID-19 pandemic. As clinical understanding of the COVID-19 disease process progresses, this study will provide a foundation for an efficient process to answer questions rapidly (with already collected data and samples) and thoroughly (by pooling all Ireland data). There will also be benefit to individual hospitals by strengthening research capacity and being part of a larger research project with the support of academic centres and Infectious Diseases experts.
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Prof Patrick Mallon |
St. Vincent’s University Hospital |
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Assoc. Prof Aoife Cotter |
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital |
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Prof Garry Courtney |
St. Luke's General Hospital, Carlow/Kilkenny |
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Dr Eoghan de Barra |
Beaumont Hospital, Dublin |
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Prof Eoin Feeney |
St. Vincent’s University Hospital |
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Prof Mary Horgan |
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital |
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Dr Bairbre McNicholas |
Galway University Hospital |
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Prof Fionnuala Ní Áinle |
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and Rotunda Hospital |
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Dr Sarah O'Connell |
University Hospital Limerick |
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Dr Cilian Ó Maoldomhnaigh |
Children’s Health Ireland at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin/Temple Street |
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Dr Corinna Sadlier |
Cork University Hospital |
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Dr Willard Tinago |
UCD Centre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research (CEPHR) |
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Dr Obada Yousif |
Wexford General Hospital |
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Dr Fiona Lyons |
St. James's Hospital |
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Dr Brendan O'Kelly |
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda |
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Dr Bridget Freyne |
Children's Health Ireland at Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin/Temple Stree |
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Dr Bryan Whelan |
Sligo University Hospital |
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Prof Peter Doran |
UCD Clinical Research Centre, UCD School of Medicine |
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Dr Christine Kelly |
St. Vincent’s University Hospital |
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Dr Grace Kenny |
St. Vincent’s University Hospital |
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Prof Jack Lambert |
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital |
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Dr Justin Low |
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda |
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Prof Samuel McConkey |
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda |
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Dr Padraig McGettrick |
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital |
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Dr Tara McGinty |
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital |
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Dr Eavan Muldoon |
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital |
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Dr Cathal Ó Broin |
St. Vincent’s University Hospital |
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Dr Stefano Savinelli |
St. Vincent’s University Hospital |
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Prof Gerard Sheehan |
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital |
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Dr Giovanni Villa |
St. James’s Hospital |
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Prof Paul Cotter |
Teagasc Food Research Centre, Cork |
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Dr Fiona Crispie |
Teagasc Food Research Centre, Cork |
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Prof Paul O’Toole |
University College Cork |
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Prof James O’Donnell |
St. James’s Hospital |