Dr Darker is grant active and has secured funding from the Health Research Board, the Irish Research Council and the Health Services Executive. She is a Registered Psychologist and a Registered Health Psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She is a member of the National Advisory Committee on Drugs and Alcohol (NACDA) subcommittee (Treatment, Rehabilitation & Consequences), Department of Health. She is a Council Member of Healthy Ireland, Department of Health. She is a Board For more information: http://health.gov.ie/healthy-ireland/