Department of Economics, NUI Galway : Professor Ciaran O'Neill

Ethos and history

Ciaran O'Neill's B.Sc. and Ph.D. were awarded from Queen's University Belfast. He has held lectureships at the Department of Economics Queens University, the School of Economics and the School of Medicine in the University of Nottingham as well as Chairs in Health Economics and Policy at the University of Ulster and in Oral Health Research at Queens University Belfast.

Ciaran O'Neill has researched across a range of subjects including service utilisation, health technology assessment as well as various cost of illness studies including COPD, lung cancer and macular degneration. He has published widely in leading international journals on health economics and policy across a range of subjects. He has held visiting positions at the University of Michigan’s Institute of Gerontology, the RAND Corporation and the University of Nottingham. He was a founding member and Chairman of the Health Economics Association of Ireland and is currently Chairman of the Northern Ireland Health Economics Group. He has acted in an advisory capacity to the Northern Ireland Assembly’s health committee.

Selected Publications

Patients' attitudes to co-payments for general practitioner services: do they reflect the prevailing system? O’Reilly D, O’Neill C, O’Dowd T, Galway K, Gilliland A, Kelly A et al J Health Serv Res Policy. 2007; 12(4):197-201

The role of non-need factors in individual GP utilization analysis and its implications for the pursuance of equity: a cross country comparison. McGregor P, McKee P, O’Neill C. European Journal of Health Economics. 2008. 9(2): 147-156.

Formal and informal care utilisation amongst elderly persons with visual impairment. Ke KM, Montgomery A, Stevenson M, O’Neill C, Chakravarthy U. British Journal of Opthalmology. 2007; 91(10):1279-81.

Factors influencing hospital costs of lung cancer treatment. Fleming I., Monaghan P, Gavin A, O’Neill C. European Journal of Health Economics. 2008; 9(1):79-86

A cross-sectional comparison of direct medical care costs among COPD and Asthma patients living in the community in Northern Ireland. Murtagh E, O’Neill C, McAllister D, Kee F, MacMahon J, Heaney LG. Treatments in Respiratory Medicine. 2006, 5(6):495-501.