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Member Profile: Ivan Perry

27 June 2019

Professor Ivan Perry, epidemiologist was admitted as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy on 24 May 2019.

Ivan Perry is professor of Public Health and dean of the School of Public Health at University College Cork. He is an epidemiologist with an international profile in public health nutrition. Since 2008, he has been principal investigator on the Health Research Board’s Centre for Health and Diet Research—one of Europe’s leading interdisciplinary centres of excellence in public health nutrition.

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