Dr Brendan McElroy

Biography

Dr. Brendan McElroy's research interests are in health economics, particularly social determinants of health, economic evaluation of health technologies and financing healthcare . He has been published in highly regarded academic journals such as Social Science and Medicine and the British Medical Journal Open. He has secured competitive research funding from the European Commission and the Health Research Board of Ireland.

He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Guideline Development at the Health Information and Quality Authority, Ireland.

His recent work has been on the social determinants of health, including the food system and the effects of both housing and education on health and health inequalities. His work on economic evaluation of health technologies includes extensive applications in maternity care in Ireland and suicide prevention. His work on healthcare financing include research on changes to the Irish system of hospital financing, and risk-adjustment in primary care. He is interested in financing and delivery of health care systems in developing countries, having worked on the demand for prevention and treatment of malaria in Africa. 

His teaching interests are in health economics, microeconomics and research methods. He has lectured at undergraduate level to BA, BA (Economics through Transformational Learning), BSc (Nursing) and BSc (Public Health) and at postgraduate level to MSc Health Economics and Postgraduate Diploma (Health Economics Practice). He has conducted He has supervised several Masters theses and one PhD thesis.