Mary is the co-founder and CEO of HaPPE Earth, a sustainable innovation in the field of healthcare personal protective equipment. With an 18 year background in medicine, she specialised in studying highly infectious emerging threats particularly from a health protection standpoint. Mary details her journey with HaPPE Earth and her experience in the world of health innovation. Her big idea started as a conversation with her cousin about the amount of plastic plaguing the health care sector, next thing she knew, she was bargaining with manufacturers. Mary speaks about her experience with the Health Innovation Hub of Ireland, the process of identifying and tackling real world problems, and the many factors that carry weight in the innovation process/value chain.
