Tuesday 1st April 2025, 1-2 pm, Online

Can we harness obstetric information for chronic disease prevention? A public health perspective

with Dr Peter Barrett

Dr. Peter Barrett is a HRB Clinician Scientist Research Fellow in the INFANT Research Centre, University College Cork, and a Consultant in Public Health Medicine in the HSE Department of Public Health in Cork.

Peter is a medical graduate of UCC, and holds Masters degrees in Global Health (Karolinska Institutet) and in Public Health (University of Cambridge), as well as Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health UK (FFPH), and the Faculty of Public Health Medicine Ireland (FFPHMI). He completed a PhD in epidemiology on the Wellcome Trust HRB Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) Programme, and in 2023, he was the first public health physician to be awarded a HRB Clinician Scientist Fellowship.

Much of Peter’s research focuses on using international routine maternal health records for the prediction and prevention of age-related chronic diseases. He is also actively involved in sexual health, substance use, and infectious disease research. He provides research supervision to medical students, Masters students, Academic Interns, Specialist Registrars, and PhD students.

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