Future of Health is a College of Medicine and Health strategic centre which covers Population Health Research and Health Services Research. Population Health Research includes identifying health determinants for individuals and populations, measuring behavioural risk factors, and elucidating ethnic, gender, socioeconomic and cultural differences that affect the health of the population and their current and future demands on health service provision. Health Services Research is a broad range of activities designed to improve the quality of health care provision, reduce its cost, evaluate its effectiveness, improve patient safety, decrease medical errors, and broaden access to essential services.
Focus
Brings together researchers across public health, clinical sciences, data science and social sciences with the health service to transform health and healthcare delivery.
Ambition
To create integrated, person-centred to health and new healthcare solutions that improve health outcomes across populations.
Academic Posts
Applications are regularly sought for a number of positions that support the ambitions of Future of Health. Explore the posts below for more information on the posts and who to contact for informal enquiries for each.
Professors
These positions are being filled as part of Future of Health
UCC Futures is an ambitious new programme of research prioritisation, coupled with an innovative academic recruitment strategy spanning 10 strategically important indicative areas encompassing the humanities, arts, social sciences, STEM, health, business and law.
UCC Futures - Future of Health is a once in a generation opportunity to create a research ecosystem that will maximise the potential of our academic expertise and provide tangible, impactful, solutions in response to the most important global challenges of our time.
Posts closed for application
Senior Lecturers
These positions are being filled as part of Future of Health.
UCC Futures is an ambitious new programme of research prioritisation, coupled with an innovative academic recruitment strategy spanning 10 strategically important indicative areas encompassing the humanities, arts, social sciences, STEM, health, business and law.
Future of Health is a once in a generation opportunity to create a research ecosystem that will maximise the potential of our academic expertise and provide tangible, impactful, solutions in response to the most important global challenges of our time.
Posts open for application
Lecturers
These positions are being filled as part of Future of Health.
UCC Futures is an ambitious new programme of research prioritisation, coupled with an innovative academic recruitment strategy spanning 10 strategically important indicative areas encompassing the humanities, arts, social sciences, STEM, health, business and law.
Future of Health is a once in a generation opportunity to create a research ecosystem that will maximise the potential of our academic expertise and provide tangible, impactful, solutions in response to the most important global challenges of our time.
Posts open for application
Updated
14 September 2026
