Katie Curran

Katie Curran is a Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast's Centre for Public Health, within the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences. Her work focuses on diabetic retinopathy, diabetes mellitus, and public health interventions in vision care. She holds a PhD in Public Health from QUB (2021), supervised by Professors Congdon, Peto, and Lohfeld.

Her research explores screening adherence, disease progression prediction, and global health disparities in vision impairment caused by diabetes. Notable projects include machine learning applications in retinal imaging and meta-analyses estimating global diabetic blindness prevalence.

Dr. Curran has received awards for her poster presentations (2019) and has contributed to international collaborations in India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. She actively engages in CPD training, public lectures, and patient involvement initiatives like 'Edible EyeArt' exhibitions.

• Advisory: Supervised a doctoral thesis on diabetic eye screening in low-resource settings
• Labs/Teams: Collaborates with the Global Burden of Disease Study and Vision Loss Expert Group