Prof. Patricia Noonan Walsh

Patricia Noonan Walsh is Professor emerita of Disability Studies at UCD, Dublin and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Disability, Law and Policy at NUI Galway.  She was Principal Investigator of POMONA-2,  a project with 14 countries represented (2005-2008) that was funded by the European Commission DG-Public Health to apply a set of health indicators related to the health of people with intellectual disabilities in Europe. 

Co-author with Barbara LeRoy of Women with Disabilities Aging Well: A global view (2004), Professor Walsh  co-edited with Vianne Timmons A Long Walk to School, presenting international experiences of inclusive education (2010).  She is a Fellow of IASSID - International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities -  and on its behalf co-organized an international conference on Human Rights and Intellectual Disabilities in Santiago, Chile (September 2007).  In Ireland, she is a Governor of the Rotunda Hospital.  Professor Walsh served on Ireland’s National Council on Special Education 2007-2009. In November 2009, Professor Walsh was a visiting scholar at the Joint Bioethics and Health Policy Program promoted by Yale University and the Hastings Center, Garrison NY.  

She was a member of the steering committee of the high-level group convened by WHO-Europe to develop policy on the health of children and young people with intellectual disabilities in Europe – Better Health, Better Lives (2010).  Professor Walsh currently serves (2011) on the Task Force on the Inclusion of Disability within Ireland’s international development cooperation programme - Dóchas Disability and International Development Working Group.

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