Prof Deirdre Murray

Professor Deirdre Murray joined the National Cancer Registry as Director in June 2021. She is a medical graduate of University College Cork (UCC), has a Masters in Public Health from University College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine.   She undertook her clinical training in Ireland and the UK and has almost two decades of experience as a Specialist in Public Health Medicine.  She has worked in the HSE’s National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) since its inception, is a founding member of its Executive Management team and she set up and led the NCCP’s Cancer Intelligence function.  She played a leading role in designing and developing the NCCP’s monitoring system to oversee the implementation of key strategic decisions, supporting quality assurance of cancer services and service improvement across the eight cancer centres and their satellite treatment units.  She is a trainer with the Faculty of Public Health Medicine and has a particular interest in health information and health services research, delivering research presentations to students at UCC, and to national and international conferences.