Eoghan de Barra received his medical degree in Dublin and proceeded to gain specialist training in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine in Ireland and South Africa.  He completed his research MD in the department of Tropical Medicine and International Health at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Dublin and conducting malaria vaccine research in Dublin and at the University of Oxford. 

In 2014 he took up a post at Imperial College NHS Trust, London as a Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine, where he was site lead for Neuro-Infection, a regional lead for TB.  In 2017 he returned to Dublin taking up a post as Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Beaumont Hospital and Senior Lecturer at the Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine, RCSI.

He is past secretary of the Infectious Diseases Society of Ireland, Ireland’s current representative for UEMS-ID and the European Clinical Research Alliance on Infectious Diseases (ECRAID).  The is a site Principal Investigator for several clinical studies and for the Infectious Diseases Clinical Trial Network.