Dr. Brendan McElroy's research interests are in health economics, in particular economic evaluation of health technologies and financing healthcare, but broadening to the overall health system, by including housing, education and diet. 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 health systems, especially 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 health care 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 undergrad level to BA, BA (Economics through Transformational Learning), BSc (Nursing) and BSc (Public Health) and at postgrad level to MSc Health Economics and Postgraduate Diploma (Health Economics Practice). He has supervised several Masters theses and one PhD thesis.

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