Prof Andrew Murphy

Prof Andrew Murphy qualified in medicine from Trinity College Dublin in 1988. He completed his higher general practice training in Dublin 1992, was awarded an MD in 1996, a Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners in London in 2004 and a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology in Australia in 2011. He was a Visiting Professor to the University of Adelaide and Flinders University in Australia for the year of 2004. 
 
His research, largely quantitative and always collaborative, addresses chronic disease management and professional practice in the community. He has been a lead investigator on trials evaluating the role of general practitioners in A&E, the management of cardiovascular disease, chronic pain, COPD, urinary tract infections, influenza like-illness and multi-morbidity. These have resulted in publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, BMJ, Pain, BJGP, Thorax and Trials. Regarding trial methodology, he has published on cluster trials, recruitment strategies, generalisability and patient acceptability of data access.  He has been Director of the €3.5 million Health Research Board Primary Care Clinical Trials Network Ireland since its establishment in 2015. Prof Murphy is currently Chair of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research International Advisory Board to Primary Care Research Networks, a member of the Advisory Board to the Norwegian Primary Care Research Network and was formerly an advisor to the Egyptian Ministry of Health. 

Prof Murphy is the recipient of the national 2025 Health Research Board Impact Award. The independent Panel described his body of work as ‘having an exceptional influence on practice and policy in the Irish healthcare system’.