DrSarah Barry

Dr Sarah Barry PhD is Senior Lecturer and Director of Academic Programmes at the School of Population Health, RCSI. Sarah leads the multidisciplinary Cameron Team at the School of Population Health with its specific brief to support the education and research targets of the School over five years. Sarah is the first Programme Director of the MSc in Population Health Leadership established in 2024. She was previously the Director of the Centre for Health Policy and Management at Trinity College Dublin, and Co-Director of the National HRB-funded SPHeRE PhD training programme securing €6m in funding with colleagues from RCSI and UCC. Sarah directed Trinity's MSc in Health Services Management for over 5 years.

Sarah is Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin, and Visiting Lecturer at Munster Technological University. She is a member of the Strategy and Reform Committee of the HSE Board having previously served on the Performance and Planning Committee from 2020 to 2024; She is also a member of the Population-Based Planning Expert Advisory Group for HSE Public Health. She was appointed by the Minister for Health to the Board of the Health Research Board (HRB) in November 2022, and also serves as Deputy Chair for the Advisory Board of the Advanced Care Research Centre Academy at the University of Edinburgh.

Sarah completed a Diploma in Corporate Governance in 2021 at the Corporate Governance Institute International, a PhD (Organisational Learning on ‘Another Map’) at the Center for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin in 2010; a Masters in Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation from the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK in 2001; and a Bachelor of Divinity from The Gregorian Pontifical University, Rome, Italy in 1995. Sarah was also awarded a Baccalaureate in Philosophy from the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy in Dublin in 1992.