Ronan Lyons

Ronan Lyons is the inaugural Clinical Professor of Public Health at Swansea University Medical School.[1] He is Director of the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research (NCPHWR),[2] Director of the Farr Institute Centre for the Improvement of Population Health through E-records Research (CIPHER),[3] Co-Director of the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) system, Co-Director of the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer),[4] and Co-Director of the Administrative Data Research Centre Wales.[5]

Education and early career

Lyons trained at Mercer’s Hospital, Dublin and qualified in medicine from School of Medicine (Trinity College, Dublin) in 1983. He later completed an MPH degree at University College Dublin in 1988 and an MD from Trinity College Dublin in 1993. After several years in hospital and community medicine, Lyons undertook specialist training in public health in Ireland before being appointed a consultant with the West Glamorgan Health Authority (now Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board) in 1992.

Professional roles

Along with his position as Clinical Professor of Public Health at Swansea University Medical School, Lyons is an Honorary Consultant with Public Health Wales NHS Trust[6] and Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University, Australia.[7]

Awards and honours

Fellow Learned Society of Wales

Fellow Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland[8]

Other activities

Lyons is also Chair of the International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics (Injury ICE) at the US National Center for Health Statistics.[9]

References
  1. "Professor Ronan Lyons". www.swansea.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  2. "National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research". www.healthandcareresearch.gov.wales. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  3. "Farr Institute | Teams and Leadership". www.farrinstitute.org. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  4. "About DECIPHer - DECIPHer". DECIPHer. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  5. "Our Team". adrn.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  6. "Professor Ronan Lyons". www.healthandcareresearch.gov.wales. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  7. deffie. "DEPM Adjunct Staff". www.med.monash.edu.au. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  8. "RCPI » Faculty of Public Health Medicine". www.rcpi.ie. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  9. "Injury Data and Resources - ICE - Steering Committee". www.cdc.gov. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
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