Aileen Kitching

Role: Senior Programme Committee
Affiliation: EAN, Ireland

Based in Ireland, Aileen is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine in the Department of Public Health of the Health Service Executive. Her portfolio includes HIV/STIs, health inequalities and health service public health.

After a background in clinical medicine (hospital & general practice in Ireland, Scotland and Australia; Médecins sans Frontières in Liberia), she completed the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) from 2007-2009 (Cohort 13) at the Health Protection Agency in London, and from 2009-2015 completed her specialisation in public health medicine, with a main interest in and experience of communicable disease control (surveillance and outbreak response), at local, regional and national level in the UK (at the Health Protection Agency/ Public Health England), as well as internationally. This included: 3 months in the Outbreak Response Unit at the National Institute for Communicable Disease (NICD) in South Africa in 2012, 3 months as Health Cluster Coordinator with the WHO in the Philippines as part of the Emergency Management Team supporting the response to Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in 2014, and 3 months as part of the Ebola Response Team with the WHO in Sierra Leone in 2015 (in a national role as WHO lead for contact tracing).

She is currently President of the EPIET Alumni Network (EAN).