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Cecily Kelleher

Professor Cecily Kelleher

Principal, UCD College of Health and Agricultural Sciences

Prof Cecily KelleherProfessor Cecily Kelleher is Chair of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology and has been the Principal of the UCD College of Health and Agricultural Sciences since 2015. She previously served as Dean and Head of the UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science.

She is the former Chair on the statutory Women’s Health Council and served as Chair for the report to the Minister for Health in the Republic of Ireland of the COVID-19 Nursing Homes Expert Panel on Examination of Measures to 2021.

Her main areas of research are on Lifecourse epidemiology and cardiovascular disease, childhood obesity, Traveller health, and the public health impacts of tobacco smoke.

Email: (opens in a new window)chasprincipal@ucd.ie

Phone: (353 1) 716 2045

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University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.