Dr. Aoife Molloy
Senior Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity and Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Acute Medicine
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Dr. Aoife Molloy is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity and Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Acute Medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. She was recently National Senior Clinical Advisor for Healthcare Inequalities Improvement at NHS England working on national policy focusing on narrowing the gap in healthcare inequalities. She is also the Co-lead for Net Zero Clinical Transformation on the Green Plan Delivery Board. She’s associate editor and social media lead at BMJ Leader, and is passionate about medical justice and equality in healthcare access, outcomes, and experience.
Aoife was National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in 2014/15, set up the Collaboration for Shared Decision Making, developed guideline adaptation tools to aid guideline development in India and worked on disinvestment and safe staffing. She was clinical lead of the Evidence Based Interventions programme at NHS England addressing value based healthcare and worked with The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to develop the first recommendations for Choosing Wisely UK and Positively UK to develop the first national standards for peer support in HIV.
She wrote “A Clear Road Ahead, a quality strategy for the NHS in England” at The Health Foundation. She studied medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, and became a member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians before moving to the UK to pursue specialty training. She has a MSc in Public Health and an NIHR-funded PhD from Imperial College London examining patient safety and inequalities at transitions of care.