Professor Deirdre Murray is the Director of the National Cancer Registry Ireland and a Professor of Cancer Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at University College Cork (UCC). She is a medical graduate of UCC, and has a Masters in Public Health from University College Dublin. She undertook her clinical training in Ireland and the UK and has almost two decades of experience as a Specialist in Public Health Medicine.
Professor Murray 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.