IFGH Presenter: Professor Ruairi Brugha

Professor Ruairí Brugha qualified as a doctor at UCD in 1980 and spent six years in Africa in the 1980s-90s as a clinician, public health specialist and researcher. He completed his public health medicine training in the UK and joined the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1996 as a lecturer and then senior lecturer. He was co-editor of Health Policy and Planning from 1999 and Head of the Health Policy Unit from2003. In 2005, he joined the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland as the first full time Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine. He conducts health policy and health systems research, mainly in Africa and Ireland. See www.ghinet.org for outputs from a multi-country network researching the effects of global initiatives on recipient country health systems, which he co-coordinates.

Click below for links to his IFGH presentations.

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• Professor Ruairi Brugha, Strengthening and supporting the health workforce (Day 2) – Audio (7.72 MB)
• Professor Ruairi Brugha, Conference Closing Session – Audio (7.51 MB)