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Eddie Donaghy is a Research Fellow at the Usher Institute, School of Population Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh. His work centers on health services research with emphasis on primary care transformation, health inequalities, and patient-centered interventions using mixed-methods approaches.
His research expertise spans health service redesign, complex care needs for vulnerable populations, unplanned hospital admissions, and eHealth solutions. Current projects evaluate Scotland's 2018 GP contract impact, social prescribing link workers across the UK, and new multidisciplinary roles in primary care. He brings extensive NHS experience from acute, psychiatric, and community settings, including critical illness survivorship research and AI/digital health tool evaluation.
Recent publications (2024-2025) demonstrate consistent focus on UK primary care policy evaluation through qualitative and mixed-methods lenses. Key themes include reducing health disparities in deprived areas, integrating community resources via social prescribing, and addressing staff burnout in specialized services. His work systematically examines implementation variations across geographic regions and healthcare systems.
Donaghy serves as co-investigator on major projects including comparative analysis of new primary care roles (2025-2027) and social prescribing evaluations (2022-2025). He actively mentors PhD students and contributes to undergraduate/postgraduate teaching on social determinants of health, health inequalities, and research methodology.
Based at the Usher Institute's Edinburgh BioQuarter facilities, he operates within one of Europe's leading population health research centers, collaborating with NHS Scotland and UK-wide health service evaluation networks.
