Dr Paul Kavanagh

Board member

Dr Paul Kavanagh was appointed to the Board of the National Cancer Registry Ireland in July 2025. Paul is a medical doctor (Trinity College Dublin, 1997), a registered specialist in public health medicine (Medical Council of Ireland Registration Number 021204), and holds postgraduate qualifications in Community Health, Health Economics, Medical Education, Healthcare Leadership and Data Science.

Having worked across a range of health system settings, Paul has broad experience designing and driving strategic interventions that strengthen healthcare governance, maintain public trust in healthcare, and that protect and improve population health. Currently, Paul is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the National Health Intelligence Unit, where he provides epidemiological advice and public health support to health information system design, major national health service reform, population profiling, and health service planning and evaluation. He has a special interest in tobacco control, has advised the HSE Tobacco Free Ireland Programme and the World Health Organisation on stop-smoking care, and is Chair of the Clinical Advisory Group on Smoking and E-Cigarettes at the Royal College of Physicians. Paul has previously provided public health advice on health policy to the government as a member of the National Clinical Effectiveness Committee and the National Screening Advisory Committee.  

Paul is Senior Honorary Lecturer in Epidemiology and Public Health at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin. He is a member of the Board of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine and the Institute of Public Health in Ireland.