Appointment of Chair to the National Haemophilia Council:

Following a publicjobs campaign, the Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD, has appointed Professor Paul Browne as Chair of the National Haemophilia Council from the 10 March 2026 until 25 November 2028.

Prof. Paul Browne is a medical graduate of Trinity College Dublin with four decades of clinical and leadership experience in healthcare service, research and education. Following general medical and early specialty haematology training in Dublin, he spent 5 years at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA, as clinical research fellow in Haematology, and then as faculty. He was appointed to St. James’s Hospital as Consultant Haematologist in 1996, where he focussed on treatment of blood cancers, in particular leukaemia and myeloma, and led the development of the clinical programme in autologous stem cell transplantation.

He has a long-standing interest in leadership, education and quality within the healthcare system. He was the founding director of the national haematology specialist training programme. He has led multiple clinical trials and investigational programmes, including a four-year term as Chair of the HRB-funded ICORG Cooperative Oncology Research group (now Cancer Trials Ireland). He was appointed as Professor of Haematology at Trinity College Dublin in 2010, and served as Head of Trinity School of Medicine for five years from 2012 to 2017.

He was the first Programme Director for the joint hospital-university initiative to establish Trinity St. James’s Cancer Institute, which recently received designation as an OECI-accredited comprehensive cancer centre. He has held a number of leadership and governance roles, including serving on the Advisory Committee for Human Medicines of the HPRA, and as Board member of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service. He maintains an active interest in healthcare innovation, education and research, and continues to work also with the voluntary patient charity sector.