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Diarmuid O'Donovan MD, MSc (Public Health), FFPHMI, DCH, DTM&H [E-Mail]

Senior Lecturer in Social & Preventive Medicine / Director of Public Health (Health Service Executive, West)

Profile

Diarmuid is Senior Lecturer in Social & Preventive Medicine at NUI Galway and Director of Public Health in the Health Service Executive (HSE West, Galway). He is a Project Leader in the Health Promotion Research Centre.  He coordinates the Public Health content of the undergraduate medical curriculum and is director of the postgraduate Diploma/Masters programme in Health Services Research.  With colleagues in Bacteriology he coordinates the undergraduate course in Global Health and Development.

He qualified in medicine in NUI Galway and in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.  He trained in General Practice and Public Health Medicine in England. He lived and worked in Africa for seven years.

Research interests

• Equity in health
• Health Policy
• Communicable Disease Control and Environmental Health
• Reproductive, maternal and child health
• Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS
• Health and Human Rights
• Global Health and Development

Professional activities

• Irish Aid Technical Advisory Group on HIV/AIDS and Global Communicable Diseases (member)
• Irish Forum for Global Health (member, current chair)
• Faculty of Public Health Medicine of Ireland (member of the Board and of the Education & Examinations Committee)
• European Malaria Vaccine Initiative (member of the Board, current vice-chair)
• Public Health Alliance Ireland (Board member)

Selected Publications

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Balfe M, Brugha R, O’Connell E, McGee H, O’Donovan D.  Where do young Irish women want Chlamydia-screening services to be set up? A qualitative study employing Goffman's impression management framework.  Health and Place 2010; 16:16-24

Callaghan M, Cormican M, Prendergast M, Pelly H, Cloughley R, Hanahoe B, O’Donovan D.  Temporal and spatial distribution of human cryptosporidiosis in the west of Ireland 2004-2007.  International Journal of Health Geographics 2009;8:64.  [download] 2.55MB

O’Connell E, Brennan W, Cormican M, Glacken M, O’Donovan D, Vellinga A, Cahill N, Lysaght F, O’Donnell J. Chlamydia trachomatis infection and sexual behaviour among female students attending higher education in the Republic of Ireland.  BMC Public Health 2009;9:397.  doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-397 [download] 214KB

Manandhar M, Maimbolwa M, Muulu E, Mwanga Mulenga M, O’Donovan D.  Intersectoral debate strengthens alliances, advocacy and action for maternal survival in Zambia.  Health Promotion International 2009;24:58-67. 2008; doi: 10.1093/heapro/dan036 [download] 83.1

Vellinga A, O’Donovan D, de la Harpe D. Length of stay and associated costs of obesity related hospital admission in Ireland.  BMC Health Services Research 2008;8:88 [download]

Vellinga A, Howell F, O’Donovan D.  The impact of the smoking ban in Ireland: modelling hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2007;61(S1):A6 [download]

Pelly H, Cormican M, O’Donovan D, Cahlmers RM, Hanahoe B, Cloughley R, McKeown P, Corbett-Feeney G.  A large outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in western Ireland linked to a public water supply: a preliminary report.  Eurosurveillance 2007;12:5

Pursell L, Allwright S, O’Donovan D, Paul G, Kelly A, Mullaly BJ, D’Eath M.  Before and after study of bar workers perceptions of the impact of smoke-free workplace legislation in the Republic of Ireland.  BMC Public Health 2007;7:131 [download]

Allwright S, Paul G, Greiner B, Mullaly B, Pursell L, Kelly A, Bonner B, D’Eath M, McConnell B, McLaughlin J, O’Donovan D, O’Kane, Perry I.  Legislation for smoke free workplaces and health of bar workers in Ireland: before and after study.  BMJ 2005;331:1117 [download]

Burke S, Keenaghan C, O’Donovan D, Quirke B.  Health in Ireland – an unequal state.  Public Health Alliance Ireland, 2004 [download]

Schim van der Loeff, M, Hansmann, A., Awasana, A.A., Ota, M.O., O’Donovan, D., Sarge-Njie. R., Ariyoshi, K., Milligan, P., Whittle, H. (2003) Survival of HIV-1 and HIV-2 perinatally infected children in The Gambia: cohort study with 7 years follow up. AIDS;17:2389-2394 [download]

O’Donovan, D., & Rideout, A. Guidelines for Drug Action Teams on conducting local confidential inquiries into drug related deaths. Report for the Department of Health, London 2001

O’Donovan, D., Cooke, R., Joce, R., Eastbury, A., Waite, J, Stene-Johansen, K. (2001) An outbreak of hepatitis A among injecting drug users. Epidemiology & Infection;127:469-473. [download]

O’Donovan, D., Iversen, A., Trounce, J., Curtis, S. (2000) An extensive outbreak of group C meningococcal infection involving two preschool nurseries. Communicable Disease and Public Health;3:103-120.

O’Donovan. D., Ariyoshi. K., Milligan. P., Ota. M., Yamuah, L., Sarge-Njie ,R., Whittle, H. (2000) Maternal plasma viral RNA levels determine marked differences in mother-to-child transmission rates of HIV-1 and HIV-2 in The Gambia. AIDS 2000;14:441-448 [download]