Fiona Lynn

Dr Fiona Lynn is a Senior Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast's School of Nursing and Midwifery, specializing in Maternal and Child Health. She leads the Parent and Child Health and Wellbeing Research Programme at the Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation. Her research focuses on enhancing maternal and child health outcomes through economic evaluations, intervention studies, and systematic reviews. She has expertise in cost-effectiveness analysis of healthcare interventions, including nurture groups in schools, music therapy for children, and public health roles of midwives.

• Current leadership roles: Programme Lead for Maternal and Child Health, Module Coordinator for MSc in Caring for Children and Young People
• Teaching: Evidence-Based Midwifery, Clinical Trials, and Childhood Health modules

Recent projects include evaluating the impact of nurture groups in Northern Ireland schools, cost-effectiveness of music interventions for prenatal stress, and the APPLE Project assessing parenting programs.

Her awards include the Global Research Training Programme award and multiple Research Mobility Scholarships. She has supervised over 10 PhD students, focusing on topics like postnatal depression interventions and pediatric healthcare.