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Ronan Lyons

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Ronan Lyons is the inaugural Clinical Professor of Public Health at Swansea University Medical School.[1] He is Director of the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research (NCPHWR),[2] Director of the Farr Institute Centre for the Improvement of Population Health through E-records Research (CIPHER),[3] Co-director of the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) system, co-director of the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer),[4] and co-director of the Administrative Data Research Centre Wales.[5]

Education and early career

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Lyons trained at Mercer's Hospital, Dublin and qualified in medicine from the School of Medicine in 1983. He later completed an MPH degree at University College Dublin in 1988 and an MD from Trinity College Dublin in 1993. After several years in hospital and community medicine, Lyons undertook specialist training in public health in Ireland before being appointed a consultant with the West Glamorgan Health Authority (now Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board) in 1992.[citation needed]

Professional roles

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Along with his position as Clinical Professor of Public Health at Swansea University Medical School, Lyons is an Honorary Consultant with Public Health Wales NHS Trust[6] and adjunct professor at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University, Australia.[7]

Awards and honours

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Fellow Learned Society of Wales[8]

Fellow Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland[9]

Lyons was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2021, with the appointment being made substantive (OBE) in January 2022.[10][11]

Other activities

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Lyons is also Chair of the International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics (Injury ICE) at the US National Center for Health Statistics.[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Ronan Lyons". www.swansea.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  2. ^ "National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research". www.healthandcareresearch.gov.wales. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Farr Institute | Teams and Leadership". www.farrinstitute.org. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  4. ^ "About DECIPHer - DECIPHer". DECIPHer. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Our Team". adrn.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  6. ^ "Professor Ronan Lyons". www.healthandcareresearch.gov.wales. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  7. ^ deffie. "DEPM Adjunct Staff". www.med.monash.edu.au. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  8. ^ Wales, The Learned Society of. "Ronan Lyons". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  9. ^ "Faculty of Public Health Medicine". www.rcpi.ie. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  10. ^ "Honorary Awards to Foreign Nationals in 2021". Gov.UK. 2021.
  11. ^ "Crown Office". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  12. ^ "Injury Data and Resources - ICE - Steering Committee". www.cdc.gov. Retrieved 17 May 2017.