Peggy Maguire is currently Director of the European Institute for Women’s Health, member of the steering group of the European Advisory group on mid-life and older women’s health. Appointed in 1997 to the National Women’s Health Council in Ireland, this council acts as an expert advisory group to the Minister of Health in Ireland.

Peggy initiated and oversaw the research and publication of Women in Europe Towards Healthy Ageing; Demential Care Challenges for an Ageing Europe; Promoting Gender Equity in Public Health in Europe. Peggy also participated in the UN Expert Committee on Women’s Health in 1998, which produced the framework document Women’s Health, Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective into the Health Sector.