Interim Report of the Expert Advisory Group on Rapid Testing (RTEAG)

The RTEAG was appointed by the Minister as an Independent Expert Group to provide advice and support to him and government departments seeking to pilot/roll out rapid testing in their respective sectors.

Chair

Prof Mary Horgan, Professor of Infectious Diseases and consultant at Cork University Hospital.

Members

• Dr Jeff Connell, Assistant Director, Principal Clinical Scientist at the National Virus Reference Laboratory
• Dr Ronan Glynn, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health
• Prof Pete Lunn, founder and head of the Behavioural Research Unit at the Economic and Social Research Institute
• Prof Patrick Mallon, Professor of Microbial Diseases at the University College Dublin School of Medicine and a Consultant in Infectious Diseases at St Vincent’s University Hospital
• Prof Kingston Mills, Professor of Experimental immunology at Trinity College Dublin
• Niamh O’Beirne, HSE National Lead for Testing and Tracing
• Prof Patrick O’Mahony, Chair of the Health Information Quality Authority and Chair of the Board of the Irish Medicines Verification Organisation
• Dr Anna-Rose Prior, Consultant Clinical Microbiologist at Tallaght University Hospital
• Prof Breda Smyth, Director of Public Health Medicine, HSE West