THE PUBLIC health expert who managed Galway’s water crisis last year had two awards conferred on him by the British Medical Association (BMA).
Dr Diarmuid O’Donovan, Health Services Executive West director of public health and senior lecturer in social and preventive medicine at NUI Galway, received the awards for his recent book on world health statistics.
One of the two BMA plaudits highlights Dr O’Donovan’s communication skills. His book, which charts how health, poverty and human rights are inextricably linked, was shortlisted in the BMA board of science award for public understanding of science.
BMA chairman Sir Charles George said that Dr O’Donovan’s compendium of world health statistics was “superbly accessible, beautifully produced and highly informative”. The Atlas of Human Health: Mapping the Challenges and Causes of Disease by Dr O’Donovan is published by Earthscan.