Professor Deirdre Murray

Director

Professor Deirdre Murray is the Director of the National Cancer Registry Ireland (NCRI) and Professor of Cancer Epidemiology in University College Cork (UCC).  She is responsible for the overall leadership and management of the NCRI.

She chairs the UK and Ireland Association of Cancer Registries, is a Steering Group member of the European Network of Cancer Registries and is involved in a number of international research collaborations.   She is also a member of the National Screening Advisory Committee, chairs a subgroup on Cancer Screening and is a member of the National Research Ethics Committee.  She is a trainer with the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland.  

Trained in public health medicine, she previously worked in the Health Service Executive’s National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP), leading the NCCP’s Cancer Intelligence function.  Professor Deirdre Murray is a medical graduate of UCC, has a Masters in Public Health from UCD and qualifications in healthcare management and health economics from the Institute of Public Administration.  She undertook her clinical training in Ireland and the UK and higher specialist training in Public Health Medicine in Ireland.