Dr Peter Barrett
Biography
Peter is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine working in the Department of Public Health HSE South West (Cork & Kerry), and an Adjunct Clinical Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health.
Peter graduated from Medicine in UCC with First Class Honours in 2010. He worked in clinical medicine and paediatrics before entering Higher Specialist Training in Public Health Medicine. He holds Masters degrees in Global Health (Karolinska Institutet) and in Public Health (University of Cambridge), as well as Membership of the Faculty of Public Health UK (MFPH), and the Faculty of Public Health Medicine Ireland (MFPHMI). He was the first graduate of the Wellcome Trust HRB Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) Programme in Ireland, and completed a PhD in large-scale epidemiology in the School of Public Health & INFANT Research Centre in 2021.
Peter has gained wide-ranging operational experience in public health, working across all domains of practice in regional Departments of Public Health in the UK and Ireland, the Department of Health (Government of Ireland), National Cancer Control Programme, and University College Dublin School of Public Health. In 2023, he became the first public health physician to be awarded a HRB Clinician Scientist Fellowship. This Fellowship focuses on the prediction and prevention of age-related chronic diseases in women using information from international routine maternal health records.
Peter contributes to teaching across a range of degree programmes in UCC, and he provides research supervision to medical students, MPH students, Academic Interns, Specialist Registrars, and PhD students. Alongside his clinical commitments, his research interests are mainly in the areas of maternal health, substance use prevention, and sexual health, with a strong focus on knowledge translation. He is happy to be contacted by students who may wish to discuss potential projects.