Anne Macfarlane BA, PhD

Anne MacFarlane is Professor of Primary Healthcare Research at the Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick. She collaborates with WHO Europe as a Senior Consultant for the implementation of their 2017 Migrant Health Strategy. She is a member of the NAPCRG Special Interest Group for Refugee and Migrant Health and is on the Committee on Advancing the Science of Family Medicine group for Participatory Research in Primary Care. She established, and is co-lead for, the Migrant Health Research Group in the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research

Anne is the first social scientist to hold a Chair in academic primary care in Ireland. She has established an inter-disciplinary ‘Public and Patient Involvement’ research group at the Graduate Entry Medical School, with members from general practice, biostatistics, physiotherapy, sociology and psychology.