Dr Ann Kirby

Biography

Dr Ann Kirby is a lecturer in the School of Economics, UCC. She completed a PhD in the University of Ulster, Jordanstown in 2012. Her principal research interests are in the area of Health Economics and Economic Evaluations. Ann was the Program Director for the Postgraduate Diploma and Masters in Health Economics Practice in UCC from 2011 to 2018. In addition, Ann and colleagues from the Health Economics group in the School of Economics in UCC have run a series of Executive Workshops on Economic Evaluations and Survey Methods. Her research contains 3* publications  publishing in for example BMJ Open. 

Projects include the Food Choice at Work study (including an economic evaluation of work place interventions) and collaborations with Mercy University Hospital (cost analysis of Warfarin and a RCT on mobility amongst the elderly), Cork University Hospital (effects of NOACs on cardioversion use and costs for patients with Atrial Fibrillation). Recently, she has completed a series of analyses on the anticoagulant prescribing landscape in Ireland in conjunction with the Department of General Practice in UCC as well as completing a HTA for a medical device through the Health Innovation Hub. Currently she has completed research in the area of Cancer having secured funding from MSD Oncology. 

Previously she has supervised research assistants, as well as supervisied doctoral (2) and post graduate students (> 28). Ann has been awarded funding as a PI, co applicant and collaborator on grants from for example the Food Safety Promotions Board, MSD Oncology.