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Ireland
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
55
Citations
13122
World Ranking
2012
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Ireland Leader Award

Overview

Ruairi Brugha is affiliated with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a substantial focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Emergency Medical Services, General Health Professions, Gender Studies, and Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health.

Their main research topics include:

  • Global Health and Surgery
  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ruairi Brugha are:

  • "Doctor Retention: A Cross-sectional Study of How Ireland Has Been Losing the Battle," 2020, published in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • "SLAN 2007: Survey of Lifestyle, Attitudes and Nutrition in Ireland. Alcohol use in Ireland: A profile of drinking patterns and alcohol-related harm from SLAN 2007," 2021, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • "Patterns, quality and appropriateness of surgical referrals in Malawi," 2020, Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • "Factors influencing specialty choice and the effect of recall bias on findings from Irish medical graduates: a cross-sectional, longitudinal study," 2020, BMC Medical Education
  • "Financing of surgery and anaesthesia in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review," 2021, BMJ Open

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ruairi Brugha include:

  • Jakub Gajewski
  • Chiara Pittalis
  • Leon Bijlmakers
  • Eric Borgstein
  • John Kachimba

Ruairi Brugha's work has been published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • PLoS ONE
  • World Journal of Surgery
  • BMJ Open

Best Publications

  • Stakeholder analysis: a review.

    Ruairí Brugha;Zsuzsa Varvasovszky

  • Doing health policy analysis: methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges

    Gill Walt;Jeremy Shiffman;Helen Schneider;Susan F Murray

  • A stakeholder analysis

    Zsuzsa Varvasovszky;Ruairí Brugha

  • An assessment of interactions between global health initiatives and country health systems

    Badara Samb;Badara Samb;Tim Evans;Mark Dybul;Mark Dybul

  • The effects of global health initiatives on country health systems: a review of the evidence from HIV/AIDS control

    Regien G Biesma;Ruairí Brugha;Ruairí Brugha;Andrew Harmer;Aisling Walsh

  • Improving the Quality of Private Sector Delivery of Public Health Services: Challenges and Strategies

    Ruairí Brugha;Anthony Zwi

  • What can be done about the private health sector in low-income countries?

    Anne Mills;Ruairi Brugha;Kara Hanson;Barbara McPake

  • SLAN 2007: Survey of lifestyle, attitudes and nutrition in Ireland. Main report.

    Karen Morgan;Hannah McGee;Dorothy Watson;IJ Perry

  • Genital herpes infection: a review.

    R Brugha;K Keersmaekers;A Renton;A Meheus

  • What’s distressing about having type 1 diabetes? A qualitative study of young adults’ perspectives

    Myles Balfe;Myles Balfe;Frank Doyle;Diarmuid Smith;Seamus Sreenan

  • The Global fund: managing great expectations

    Ruairí Brugha;Martine Donoghue;Mary Starling;Phillimon Ndubani

  • Costs of near-miss obstetric complications for women and their families in Benin and Ghana.

    J. Borghi;K. Hanson;C. Adjei Acquah;G. Ekanmian

  • GAVI, the first steps: lessons for the Global Fund

    Ruairí Brugha;Mary Starling;Gill Walt

  • Obstetric audit in resource-poor settings: lessons from a multi-country project auditing 'near miss' obstetrical emergencies.

    Veronique Filippi;Ruairi Brugha;Edmund Browne;Valerie Gohou

  • ‘You do not cross them’: Hierarchy and emotion in doctors' narratives of power relations in specialist training

    Sophie Crowe;Nicholas Clarke;Ruairi F Brugha

  • Private health care in developing countries

    Anthony B Zwi;Ruairi Brugha;Elizabeth Smith

  • National and subnational HIV/AIDS coordination: are global health initiatives closing the gap between intent and practice?

    Neil Spicer;Julia Aleshkina;Regien Biesma;Ruairi Brugha

  • A community outbreak of food-borne small round-structured virus gastroenteritis caused by a contaminated water supply.

    R. Brugha;I. B. Vipond;Meirion Rhys Evans;Q. D. Sandifer

  • A stakeholder approach towards hospital accreditation in India.

    Sunil Nandraj;Anagha Khot;Sumita Menon;Ruairí Brugha

  • A global health fund: a leap of faith?

    Ruairí Brugha;Gill Walt

  • Education and debate

    Ruairí Brugha;Gill Walt

Frequent Co-Authors

Gill Walt
Gill Walt London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Anthony B. Zwi
Anthony B. Zwi University of New South Wales
Charles Normand
Charles Normand Trinity College Dublin
Helen Schneider
Helen Schneider University of the Western Cape
Martin Cormican
Martin Cormican University of Galway
Anna Thorson
Anna Thorson Karolinska Institute
Kara Hanson
Kara Hanson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Margaret M. Barry
Margaret M. Barry University of Galway
Lucy Gilson
Lucy Gilson University of Cape Town
Michal Molcho
Michal Molcho University of Galway

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