Appointments to the Health Information and Quality Authority board:

The Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD has appointed the following as a members to the Health Information and Quality Authority board.

Caitriona O’Driscoll

Professor Caitriona O’Driscoll B. Sc., Pharmacy, M.A., PhD., MRIA. A pharmacist with over 35 years experience as an academic and drug delivery scientist. Senior Lecture (1995-2003), School of Pharmacy, Trinity College Dublin. Appointed in 2003 as the inaugural Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutics in the School of Pharmacy (SOP), University College Cork, Ireland, the first female to hold such an academic position. Inaugural Director of Future Medicines (2023-date) a UCC research initiative. Coordinator of GENEGUT (2022-26), Horizon Europe, Research and Innovation Action (GA 101057491). Research interests include non-viral delivery of RNA therapeutics and Regulatory Science. Minister appointment (2023-24), to Expert Taskforce to Support Expansion of the Role of Pharmacy. Royal College Physicians Ireland, Steering Committee for the National Specialty Quality Improvement Programme (2020 24). Board of Critical Path Europe (https://c-path.eu/people/) (2018-2023), an organisation working with European (EMA) and US (FDA) regulators to promote global regulatory science. Board of the Irish Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA), 2011-15, re-appointed 2016-20, including membership of the Audit and Risk Committee, Jan-Dec 2020.

Loretto Callaghan

Loretto is an experienced non-executive director and former CEO with senior executive and board-level experience across complex and highly regulated environments, including biopharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and healthcare delivery. Her experience in the biopharmaceutical industry includes14 years as former CEO and Country President of Novartis in Ireland, and in healthcare delivery as Board Member and Chair of the Clinical Governance and Risk Committee on the Board of Beaumont Hospital.

Loretto is a Chartered Director and holds a Master of Science degree from Trinity College Dublin, a Bachelor of Science degree from University College Dublin, and a Professional Certificate in Responsible and Sustainable Finance through the Institute of Banking. She has also completed executive education programmes in Healthcare Systems Excellence at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Finance at Harvard Business School and Advanced Leadership at Tuck School of Business in the US.

She currently serves on the Board of An Bord Iascaigh Mhara and is a member of the Governance Advisory Council of the Corporate Governance Institute in Ireland.