Dr. Merry is a medical graduate from Trinity College Dublin and obtained a masters degree in HIV from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in pharmacology from Trinity College Dublin. She completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at North Western Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Merry is a consultant in infectious diseases and senior lecturer in global health at Trinity College Dublin. She is currently on a leave of absence and based at the Infectious Diseases Institute, where she is developing HIV pharmacology research and the AIDS Treatment Information Center (ATIC). She is a member of the adjunct faculty at the Center for Global Health Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern. Dr. Merry also co-founded Realta, an Irish-based NGO involved in community projects in Kampala and the Mpigi district of Uganda.