Professor Diarmuid O’Donovan is Director of National Health Improvement with HSE Public Health. This new team focuses on addressing health inequalities and developing partnerships for a Health in All Policies approach to improving population health.
He trained in general practice and public health and worked in several countries in Africa. From 2019-2023 he was Professor of Global Health at Queen’s University Belfast. Before that he was Director of Public Health in HSE West and Senior Lecturer in Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Galway.
His research and teaching interests focus on health equity and sustainability, locally and globally.