Principal investigator and consortium coordinator
Professor Ruairi Brugha (MB, BCh, BAO, MD, FFPHMI, MSc, DCH, Dip Obs, Dip Humanities) spent six years working in Africa in the 80s and 90s, where he acquired hands-on experience of delivering hospital care including surgery to rural populations. He then trained as a public health medicine specialist; and spent 10 years at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he was head of the health policy unit and editor of Health Policy and Planning. He teaches on health systems and policy to medical and PhD students at RCSI. He was head of the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland from 2005 to 2019. Prof Ruairi coordinated COST-Africa before he began to lead the SURG-Africa consortium.
Professor Ruairi Brugha (MB, BCh, BAO, MD, FFPHMI, MSc, DCH, Dip Obs, Dip Humanities) spent six years working in Africa in the 80s and 90s, where he acquired hands-on experience of delivering hospital care including surgery to rural populations. He then trained as a public health medicine specialist; and spent 10 years at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he was head of the health policy unit and editor of Health Policy and Planning. He teaches on health systems and policy to medical and PhD students at RCSI. He was head of the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland from 2005 to 2019. Prof Ruairi coordinated COST-Africa before he began to lead the SURG-Africa consortium.