Karina Butler

Karina Mary Butler is an Irish professor of paediatrics and was chair of Ireland's National Immunisation Advisory Committee.

Background

Butler graduated with a degree in medicine from University College Dublin in 1978. She became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 1996.

Career

Butler is a specialist consultant in paediatrics and infectious disease at Children's Health Ireland at Temple Street and Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin. She is a Clinical Professor in Paediatrics at UCD.
Butler was the chair of NIAC and sat on the National Public Health Emergency Team from January 2021 until it disbanded in February 2022.