Anne MacFarlane is a Professor of Primary Healthcare Research at the Faculty of Education and Health Science at the University of Galway, Ireland, and is the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Participatory Health Research with Refugees and Migrants. She graduated with a B.A. (psychology and sociology) from University College Cork and completed her M.A. and Ph.D  in the Department of Health Promotion, NUI Galway. After working as a Research Fellow in University College London for two years, Anne returned to Ireland and held a Health Research Board Health Services Research Fellowship in the Department of General Practice, NUI Galway. She was also a Lecturer in Primary Care at the Department of General Practice NUI Galway. Her research focusses on user involvement in primary health care and in improving access to primary healthcare for marginalised groups, including homeless persons, drug users, travellers, migrants and others.