Dr Aileen Murphy

Biography

Dr Aileen Murphy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and a graduate of University College Cork (BComm, MEconSc) and University of Glasgow (PhD). Dr Murphy is an international expert and national leader in health economics. She currently teaches health economics at postgraduate/ executive education level, principles of economics and econometrics at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the business school.

Dr Murphy is an international expert and national leader in health economics, employing economic evaluation techniques to inform the sustainable allocation of scarce resources. With an established interdisciplinary network, she leads a worldclass research team, attracting significant research funding (including Horizon Europe and MSCA-Doctoral Network) and publishes high quality, impactful publications. She is experienced research supervisor and ranked among the top 10 researchers in Cork University Business School, UCC.

Dr Murphy specialises in the application of economic evaluation techniques to examine cost effectiveness, affordability and sustainability of health innovations in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Collaborating with colleagues across the University, pharmaceutical sector, clinicians and scientists nationally and internationally.

• Senior Lecturer, UCC
• PhD, University of Glasgow
• MEconSc, University College Cork
• BComm, University College Cork
• PGDTLHE, University College Cork
• PGCTLHE, University College Cork

Through her intellectual leadership Dr Murphy established successful research collaborations, creating an inter-disciplinary academic and industry network, across public (clinicians and medical academics, the Department of Health, Health Information Quality Authority), private (GSK, MSD) and not-for-profit sectors (Breakthrough Cancer Research, Crann Centre). These sustainable, novel, and collaborative networks facilitate productive multi-disciplinary engagement with the local, national and international stakeholders.