Director National Health Protection
HSE Public Health: Health Protection
Dr O'Moore, Director of National Health Protection qualified from UCD in 1991. He trained in Public Health in Oxford and at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He worked primarily in the UK since 1995, but has also worked internationally, including with the WHO and with ECDC in various roles relating to specialist practice in health protection. In the UK, Dr O'Moore worked with the Health Protection Agency (as Director of the Thames Valley Health Protection Unit), Public Health England (as National Lead for Health & Justice), and the UK Health Security Agency (as Deputy Director for Vulnerable People and Inclusion Health). During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for the public health response for Public Health England (PHE) and then UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) in Adult Social Care and Secure Settings. He previously worked in PHE as National Incident Director for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014/15.
Dr O'Moore has a long-standing interest in health inequalities and health equity. He has also worked as Director of the UK Collaborating Centre with the WHO Health in Prisons Programme. He was a founding member of the Worldwide Prison Health Research & Engagement Network (WEPHREN). Dr O'Moore has led a range of national health protection and health improvement programmes nationally, including work on blood- borne viruses, JB and migrant health. He led the development of surveillance and epidemiological resources nationally and internationally to inform health needs and health impact assessments. Dr O'Moore was a senior advisor to national and international governments, produced many research papers, presented at international conferences and is an editor and senior contributor to a forthcoming publication by Oxford University Press on Prison Medicine.
