DrJulie Broderick

Associate Professor 

CORU Registered Physiotherapist: PT029280

Dr. Julie Broderick is currently an Associate Professor in University College Dublin since July 2025. 

From July 2023-2025, she was Head of the Discipline of Physiotherapy in Trinity College Dublin and was an Assistant/Associate Professor in Trinity College Dublin since 2014.

She is a past Health Research Board (HRB) Clinical Research Fellow (2008-2012) and a Cochrane Fellow (2015-2017). She has a BSc. (Hons) in Physiotherapy, an MSc in Exercise Physiology, a Higher Diploma in Statistics and a PhD from Trinity College Dublin. She was appointed an Adjunct Associate Professor In the School of Medicine in Trinity College in September 2025. 

Her main clinical experience was in the area of cardio-respiratory physiotherapy, and this is the main focus of her teaching in UCD.

Her doctoral work was entitled ''Physical Activity through the Cancer Trajectory''. 

Her previous clinical experience has guided her research interest at the intersections of chronic disease, social exclusion and health equity. 

She leads an active research programme in the area of chronic disease (particularly cardio-respiratory and cancer) and is committed to the area of physical health in socially excluded groups such as people experiencing homelessness, Travellers and vulnerable migrants, focussing on optimising physical and wider health outcomes for these groups. 

She has lectured widely nationally and internationally, and a number of publications have emananated from her work.