Meet the Team

Other associated researchers (external)

• Ms Krysia Lynch, Chairperson, Association for Improvement of the Maternity Services Ireland
  
• Professor Declan Devane, School of Nursing and Midwifery, NUI Galway
  
• Professor Charles Normand, Edward Kennedy Professor of Health Policy & Management, TCD
  
• Professor Michael Turner, National Lead for the HSE Clinical Programme in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  
• Dr Paul Corcoran, Senior Lecturer in Perinatal Epidemiology with the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCC, Cork
  
• Dr Sara Leitão, Research Officer, National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCC, Cork
  
• Professor Mechthild Gross, Hannover Medical School, Germany
  
• Professor Ingela Lundgren, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
  
• Professor Marie Berg, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
  
• Professor Koen Putman, Interuniversity Centre for Health Economics (I-CHER), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  
• Professor Andrew Weeks, University of Liverpool, UK
  
• Ms Gill Gyte, Consumer Representative, Cochrane Collaboration, UK
  
• Ms Karen Guilliland, CEO, New Zealand College of Midwives, NZ
  
• Dr Lesley Dixon, Practice Development Officer, New Zealand College of Midwives, NZ
  
• Professor Yvonne Hauck, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
  
• Dr Liz Newnham, The University of Newcastle, Australia
  
• Professor Christine Rubertsson, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
  
• Professor Stephanie Brown, Professor and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, Intergenerational Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
  
• Dr Deirdre Gartland, Research Fellow, Intergenerational Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
  
• Dr Elin Naurin, Senior lecturer and Assistant Professor, Marie Curie Fellow Multidisciplinary Opinion and Democracy Research Group (MOD), Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Ms Marcelina Szafranksa, Clinical Skills Tutor, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Dublin.

Structure of the Steering Committee

Director

Associate Prof Déirdre Daly (2021-2023)

Former Chair: Prof Cecily Begley (2019-2020)

Members

Principal Investigator representatives (Group A)
Prof Agnes Higgins (2019-2022)
Prof Valerie Smith (2019-2022)
Prof Louise Gallagher (2019-2022)

Representative of other associated researchers (internal) (Group B) (for three years)
Dr Deirdre O’Malley (2019-2022)

Representative of other associated researchers (linked hospitals) (Group C) (for three years)
Ms Paula Barry (2019-2022)

Representative of other associated researchers (postdoctoral staff) (Group D) (for one year)
Dr Denise Alexander (2021-2022)

Representative of other associated researchers (postgraduate students) (Group E) (for two years)
Ms Elizabeth Farsaci (2019-2021)

Consumer representative (invited by the Steering Committee) (for two years)
Ms Niamh Healy