The Steering Group of the SPHeRE Programme meets three times annually and has strategic representation from the eight HEIs involved with SPHeRE, key stakeholders drawn from health systems, charities and the public. The Steering Group has a view to generating broad-based support for SPHeRE, influencing and being influenced by priorities and strategic concerns in the health system and generating new funding possibilities.
A full list of our current Steering Group membership is as follows:
 | Prof John Browne SPHeRE Programme Director University College Cork |
 | Prof Anne Hickey SPHeRe Programme Co-Director The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland |
 | Prof Steve Thomas SPHeRE Programme Co-Director Trinity College Dublin |
 | Dr Catriona Cahir/Dr Eithne Sexton Programme Alumni |
 | Dr Kate Irving Dublin City University |
 | Prof Sinead McGilloway Maynooth University |
 | Dr Molly Byrne NUI Galway |
 | Dr Deirdre Hurley-Osing University College Dublin |
 | Prof Anne McFarlane University of Limerick |
 | Dr Máirín Ryan HIQA – Health Information and Quality Authority |
 | Dr Anne O’Farrell HSE – Knowledge Management (incorporating Health Intelligence) |
| Dr Stephanie O’Keefe HSE – Health & Wellbeing |
 | Ms Margaret Moore Health & Social Care Professionals Group |
 | Mr Sean Murphy General Manager, Letterkenny Hospital |
 | Mr Bill Maher CEO, Bon Secours Hospitals |
 | Mr Declan Moran Director of Marketing & Business Development, VHI |
 | Dr Derek Mitchell CEO IPPOSI (Irish Platform for Patients Organisations, Science & Industry) |
 | Dr Michelle Gardner Research Officer DMRCG (Medical Research Charities Group) |