Aoife Molloy, MBBCh, MSc

Dr. Aoife Molloy is a Medical Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital in London, UK, where she is Co-Clinical Lead for Net Zero Transformation. She has worked in national policy and in hospitals focusing on narrowing the gap in healthcare inequalities. She is 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 National Collaboration for Shared Decision Making, developed guideline adaptation tools to aid guideline development in India and worked on disinvestment and safe staffing. She was National Clinical Lead of the Evidence Based Interventions programme, addressing variation and value in quality of care in the NHS. She 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 was National Senior Clinical Advisor for Healthcare Inequalities Improvement at NHS England for four years leading clinical engagement and national policy to address health inequity in the NHS in England worsened by the COVID pandemic. She is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Global Health Equity.

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 from University of London and a PhD from Imperial College examining patient safety at transitions of care focusing on inequalities.