Ms. Anne Fitzpatrick

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Ms. Anne Fitzpatrick, Coordinator, Master of Public Health programme‌

Address: Epidemiology & Public Health, Western Gateway Building, Western Road, Cork

Telephone: +353 21 4205525

Fax: +353 21 4205469

Email: anne.fitzpatrick@ucc.ie

Biography

Anne has worked in various roles since she first joined the department in October 2007, when she coordinated of the HRB funded National Diabetes Register project. She coordinated the Master of Public Health (MPH) programme and is a recent graduate of the programme. She is currently the Business Manager at National Suicide Research Foundation.

Prior to this, Anne worked in the Department of General Practice, where her roles included module coordinator for a Continuing Professional Development module for general practitioners and UCC coordinator for the World Health Organization Healthy Cities Project.  

Ms Fitzpatrick returned to Cork in June 2006, having left her native city 17 years earlier in 1988. On her return, she worked at the School of Medicine at UCC for a year, where she acted as student liaison officer and provided administrative support to a professor and three senior lecturers at the Cork University Hospital.

Prior to this, Ms Fitzpatrick spent seven years in Chicago Illinois where she worked with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) for four years. While at UIC she worked as a project manager, working on the design and implementation of a chronic disease management programme for asthma. Ms Fitzpatrick also spent two years working as a special projects manager at the Chicago Housing Authority where she managed various community development projects and initiatives.

Following her graduation from UCD with a Higher Diploma in Development Studies in 1998, Ms Fitzpatrick worked as a project coordinator with GOAL in Dublin, where she coordinated various health and community development projects in Asia, Africa, Central America and Eastern Europe.

She graduated from UCC with a BA in Economics and Geography in 1988 and worked with various financial institutions in London, Dublin and Sydney over a period of nine years.