Joe Deegan

I am an Irish doctor working as a specialty registrar in public health in the UK.

I’m interested in how healthcare organisations can build in-house capabilities in evaluation, operational research, and knowledge sharing. I think these capabilities, when combined with iterative design approaches, can drive to better decision-making, implementation, and health outcomes.

I completed an MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, supported by a George Moore Scholarship from the Ireland Funds. My clinical background is in acute medicine; I completed my medical degree at Trinity College Dublin, and worked in acute medicine in St James’s Hospital Dublin. I was the lead NCHD (non-consultant hospital doctor) at St James’s Hospital, where I chaired the junior doctors committee and represented junior doctors at an executive level.

If you’d like to chat, please get in touch! You can find me on LinkedIn and Bluesky.

What I’m Into

It’s always nice to get a fuller picture of someone outside their work, so here are a few things I’ve been enjoying recently.

I’ve been listening to i,i by Bon Iver, At Swim by Lisa Hannigan, Mezzanine by Massive Attack, If My Wife New I’d Be Dead by CMAT, and Anything But Words by Banks and Steelz. Hot Chip’s cover of Graceland is fantastic.

I’ve been reading Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, and The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright. I still haven’t been able to get Prophet Song by Paul Lynch out of my head.

Some Projects

Here are a few projects I’ve worked on over the last while that I’m really proud of. I’ve written a small piece about each of them.

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