Advocate, Campaigner, and Champion of Women’s Health and Social Justice

Dr Mary Favier MICGP FRCGP is a GP partner and trainer in a four-doctor practice in Cork, Ireland. She has been president of the Irish College of General Practitioners and a member of the Covid-19 National public health emergency team (Nphet). She has served two four-year terms on the board of the Medical Protection Society, the world’s largest medical indemnity organisation. As a founder of Doctors for Choice she is a long-time advocate for reproductive justice and campaigned successfully to change Ireland’s constitutional prohibition on abortion. She is a founder of Start, the Irish abortion providers support group. She works in an area of high urban deprivation in Cork city, is a member of Deep End Ireland, a GP and a particular interest in the health care needs of Travellers – Ireland’s indigenous ethnic minority. She teaches on the undergraduate medical programme in University College Cork and the Postgraduate General Practice training programme.