Former Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tony Holohan is taking up a new role in UCD.
He's becoming an Adjunct Full Professor of Public Health at the College of Health and Agricultural Sciences.
UCD says it welcomes Dr. Holohan as someone of a "very high calibre" with experience in public health.
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He was due to take up a position at Trinity College Dublin, but decided not to after controversy over the Department of Health funding his open-ended secondment.