External Affiliates

Professor Kevin Balanda (Institute of Public Health)

He is Director or Research of the Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) and leads the Institute’s small Research (and Information) Team. In recognition of his contribution to public health, he was recently elected Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health (FFPH) by distinction. He is also adjunct Professor of Public Health at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Cork. His professional interests focus on the development and implementation of public health initiatives that address the broader determinants of health and aim to reduce health inequalities.
Professor Till Bärnighausen (University of Heidelberg, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Africa Health Research Institute)

Till Bärnighausen is Associate Professor at the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He also serves as Program Director for Health Systems and Impact at the Wellcome Trust Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in South Africa, one of the Trust’s four Major Overseas Programmes. He is also a faculty affiliate at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.
Professor David Bell (University of Stirling)

David Bell was educated at Dornoch Academy, the University of Aberdeen and the London School of Economics. He was awarded a PhD at the University of Strathclyde in 1984 and has worked at the Universities of St Andrews, Strathclyde, Warwick and Glasgow. He has been Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling since 1990 specialising in labour economics and fiscal federalism. He was adviser to the Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament from 2007 to 2013 and has provided advice to the ILO, OECD, the Scottish, Westminster and Irish Governments. In 2015, he was specialist adviser to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee for its investigation into the Financing of Devolution. He has appeared numerous times in the Scottish Parliament as a witness to the Economy Committee, the Health and Sport Committee, the Welfare Committee, the Devolution Committee, and the Finance Committee. He has also appeared several times as a witness at the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the IZA, Bonn and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. He is a member of the Centre on Constitutional Change and the Centre for Population Change and a special adviser to the David Hume Institute. He is also Principal Investigator of the Healthy AGeing In Scotland (HAGIS) survey, a longitudinal survey of older people in Scotland, which is funded by the US National Institute of Aging and the Nuffield Foundation.
Dr Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez (University of California, Los Angeles)

Dr Beltrán-Sánchez is Assistant Professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences and the California Center for Population Research at UCLA. His research focuses on four areas related to the demography of health and aging: (1) health and mortality trends; (2) empirical evidence on compression of morbidity; (3) links between early life experiences and late life outcomes; and (4) physiological patterns of health and their link with sociodemographic factors in Latin America. He co-founded the largest repository of mortality data in Latin America: Latin American Mortality Database that includes data from 19 countries starting around 1850.
Mary Black (Public Health Agency)

Assistant Director of Public Health (Health and Social Wellbeing Improvement) at the Public Health Agency, Northern Ireland.
Professor David Canning (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

David is Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences and Professor of Economics and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is deputy director of the Program on the Global Demography of Aging. He has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. He was also a member of Working Group One of the World Health Organization's Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. Canning's research on demographic change focuses on the effect of changes in age structure on aggregate economic activity, and the effect of changes in longevity on economic behaviour.
Professor Martin Chalkey (University of York)   

Martin Chalkley is Professor of Economics at the University of York Centre for Health Economics. He studied economics at the Universities of Southampton and Warwick, from where he obtained his PhD in 1986. From 1985, he was a lecturer at Southampton University and from 1999 was Professor of Economics at the University of Dundee. He is an editor of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy and an associate editor of the Bulletin of Economic Research. His main areas of research are incentives for the delivery of health care and provider remuneration; with particular focus on delivering low-cost, high-quality health care.
Professor Liam Delaney (University of Stirling)

Liam Delaney is SIRE Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling. He is currently Co-director of the Behavioural Science Centre in Stirling Management School, a thriving research centre that he developed in 2012. He is also PhD Director of the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics and one of six directors of the major pooling initiative for Economics in Scotland, the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE). He is also Director of Research in the Stirling Management School and Deputy Head of School and has been involved in developing the School's structure and research potential, including coordinating the 2014 REF submission and drafting the School's research strategy. He is also a Marie Curie Career Integration Fellow and an investigator on the ESRC-funded Scottish Centre on Constitutional Change.
Dr Will Dinan (University of Stirling)

Will Dinan is the programme director for the MSc in Strategic Public Relations (Double Degree with the University of Lund) and is Learning & Teaching Officer for the Division of Communication Media & Culture. Will has a BA (Hons) Sociology and Economics, University College, Cork, a Masters in Social Research Methods from the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, and was awarded his PhD from the University of Stirling for his thesis on lobbying, political communication and Scottish devolution. Before joining Stirling Will Dinan was a senior lecturer in Sociology at UWS, and previously a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Strathclyde. Will has undertaken a number of consultancy projects for public and voluntary sector bodies, including the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), BBC Scotland, the Scottish Parliament, Oxfam, the Water Customer Consultation Panels, Scotland and the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC).Will is a co-founder and steering committee member (2005-) of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency & Ethics Regulation in Europe (ALTER EU) and a member of the Committee for Transparency & Integrity, Finance Watch (2012-). He is a co-founder and director of Spinwatch. Will Dinan has worked on a number of funded research projects, including Political Communication and Democracy (ESRC Media Culture and Media Economics Programme) Political Communication and the Scottish Parliament (ESRC Devolution Initiative) and Corporate Public Relations in British and Multinational Companies (ESRC).
Dr Aedín Doris (Maynooth University)

Aedín Doris joined the Economics Department in Maynooth on completion of her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence in 1997. She is an applied labour economist with a particular interest in the econometric analysis of micro-data to assess policy-relevant labour market outcomes. She has worked on female labour supply, wage determination, wage flexibility, measurement of wage inequality, and the determinants of educational outcomes. Her current research is on higher education funding and the role of firms in generating earnings inequality.
Dr Brendan Galbraith (Ulster University Business School)

Brendan teaches Innovation and Entrepreneurship, eBusiness and Strategy and Business Model Innovation to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He is currently Placement Tutor on the Bsc (Hons) Human Resource Management programme and Department Lead for Academic Enterprise. He has been involved with colleagues at the Connected Health Innovation Centre at Ulster on Horizon 2020 proposals in collaboration with QUB in the past year.
Dr Sarah Gibney (Department of Health, Republic of Ireland)

Sarah Gibney is a Programme Analyst with the Healthy and Positive Ageing Initiative - the research and evaluation pillar of the National Positive Ageing Strategy in Ireland. In 2016 the HaPAI developed the National Positive Ageing Indicators Set for Ireland. Sarah is an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin and a member of the National Health Literacy Advisory Panel in Ireland. Sarah holds a PhD in Public Health and an MSc in Applied Social Research. Her research interests include the social determinants of positive ageing, health literacy and lifelong learning.
Dr Robert Kerr (University of Ulster)

Robert is Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at Department of Management & Leadership in the University of Ulster. His research has linked employee wellbeing to employee motivation and engagement through a university spinout company.
Dr Iris Kesternich (University of Leuven)

Iris Kesternich is Assistant Professor for Applied Microeconomics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Before, she worked as postdoctoral researcher at the Economics Department of the University of Munich where she also obtained her Ph.D. One strand of her research focuses on the long-term consequences of early childhood shocks on health and labour market outcomes, and also on preferences and behaviour. Another strand of research deals with the impact of non-standard preferences on health and labour markets.  For example, she analyses the effect of work meaning on labour supply, the effect of professional norms on physician decisions, and the effect of the size of the affected group on distributional preferences. Iris Kesternich is a member of the steering committee of the German Society for Health Economics and a resident visitor at the RAND Corporation.
Dr Yuanyuan Ma (The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing)

Dr Yuanyuan Ma is an Economics Research Fellow in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin. Prior to this, she lectured in the School of Economics, University College Dublin. She holds a PhD in Economics from University College Dublin, a Msc in Economics from Wuhan University, a BSc in Economics and a BA in International Relations from Wuhan University. Her current research focuses on the social returns to education, financial incentives and healthcare utilisation, the value of education to health, and etc. She is a Research Affiliate in the IZA (The Institute for the Study of Labor), and an affiliated Research Fellow in the Center for Social Security Studies, Wuhan University.
Dr Giampiero Marra (University College London)

Giampiero is Senior Lecturer in Statistics at UCL, Department of Statistical Science. After having graduated in Statistics and Economics at the University of Bologna in 2004, he worked as an econometrician and statistician for a consulting company and a multinational industry. In 2007, he was awarded an MSc in Statistics at UCL, and defended his PhD thesis at the University of Bath in November 2010. He joined UCL in September 2010. Giampiero is involved in applied and theoretical statistical work and his main interest is in developing computational methods to fit flexible structured regression models by penalised maximum likelihood. Giampiero’s articles have appeared in various journals including Journal of the American Statistical Association, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Statistics and Computing, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. He currently serves as Co-Editor for Statistics and Computing, and has delivered several workshops on the R package SemiParBIVProbit.
Dr Lindsey Macmillan (University College London)

Lindsey Macmillan is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at UCL Institute of Education. Her research on topics including intergenerational mobility, educational inequality and intergenerational worklessness features in a number of high-ranking journals across economics, sociology and social policy including The Economic Journal, Social Forces and The Journal of Social Policy. She is currently PI of a Future Research Leaders grant from the ESRC and CI on a number of successful grants. Alongside her academic publications, she has published reports for third sector organisations and charities including the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and The Commission on Youth Unemployment.
Professor Michael Moore (University of Warwick)

His research is mainly on exchange rates, including the development of the euro. This has naturally led to work on the European Sovereign Bond market. In recent years, his research has moved sharply to applying microstructure finance concepts to macroeconomic problems. Always eclectic, he also takes an interest in issues surrounding Public Health such the life expectancy and fertility. Previously, he has worked as a civil servant, he joined the most successful organisation in the world at attracting direct foreign investment, IDA Ireland. He specialised in Pharmaceuticals, Fine Chemicals and Healthcare. He is adept at explaining to multinational companies why locating in Ireland is sound tax management. Following this he became a senior economist in the Central Bank of Ireland.
Dr Irene Mosca (The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing)

Irene Mosca holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK). Since 2010, she has been working with The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), first as a post-doctoral researcher and then as a research fellow. Within TILDA, Irene also coordinates the economics domain and inputs into the development and piloting of the survey questionnaire. Irene has established a strong record of research and published articles in international peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Population Economics, Economics and Human Biology and the International Journal of Public Health. Irene’s research has covered a wide range of topics, including: (return) migration and mental health; the effect of adult child emigration on the mental health of older parents left behind; obesity and employment; personality and wealth accumulation within couples; lack of knowledge of future pension benefits; and socioeconomic gradient in self-reported and objective health measures.
Dr Anne Nolan (Economic and Social Research Institute/ The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing)

Dr Anne Nolan is a Senior Research Officer in the Social Research Division, and joint Research Area Coordinator for Health and Quality of Life Research at the ESRI. She is also a Research Affiliate at the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and on the Study Team Management Group of the Growing up in Ireland (GUI) study. Between 2013 and 2015 she was on secondment to TCD as Research Director of TILDA. Her main research interest is health economics, with a particular focus on healthcare financing and access, socio-economic inequalities in health and Irish health policy. She has BA and PhD degrees in Economics from Trinity College Dublin.
Dr Klaus Prettner (University of Hohenheim)

Since Fall 2015, Klaus Prettner is Professor of Economics (especially growth and distribution) at the University of Hohenheim. Previously he worked as Assistant Professor at the Vienna University of Technology and at the University of Goettingen, as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and as a researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research is primarily concerned with the impact of demographic change on long-run economic growth perspectives of industrialized economies. Klaus studied economics and statistics at the University of Vienna and obtained his Ph.D. in Economics in 2009.
Dr Slawa Rokicki (UCD Geary Institute)

Slawa Rokicki is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCD Geary Institute. She received a Master's in Global Health and Population from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2012. Her research interests focus on maternal and child health. During the course of her doctoral studies, she designed and implemented a randomized controlled trial in Accra, Ghana that evaluated the effectiveness of a sexual education mobile phone intervention on reproductive health knowledge and behaviour among adolescent girls. She is committed to bridging the research-to-policy gap and was selected as a fellow for the Population Reference Bureau's 2015-2016 Policy Communication Training program. Her work has been featured in journals such as Demography, Plos One, and Nicotine and Tobacco Research.
Dr Rosalba Radice (University of London, Birbeck)

Rosalba is Senior Lecturer in Statistics at Birkbeck, Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics. She has a first degree in Economics (University of Bologna), an MSc in Statistics (UCL), and a PhD in Statistics (University of Bath).  Before joining Birkbeck she worked as a research assistant and research fellow in the Department of Health Services Research and Policy, LSHTM. Her research interests include the development of simultaneous equation models and semiparametric and copula regression techniques for data affected by missing not at random, treatment selection bias and potential observed and unobserved confounding.
Professor James Smith (RAND)

James P. Smith holds the Distinguished Chair in Labor Markets and Demographic Studies at the RAND Corporation. He has studied immigration, the economics of aging, black-white wages and employment, the effects of economic development on labor markets, wealth accumulation and savings behavior, the interrelation of health and economic status, and the effects of attrition and nonresponse in the National Institute on Aging's Health and Retirement Study (HRS). He is principal investigator for the New Immigrant Survey, which yields adequate sample size of the foreign-born, has known sampling properties, permits longitudinal analyses, and can answer policy questions of relevance to immigration. He chaired the Panel on Demographic and Economic Impacts of Immigration (1995–1997), the Committee on Population, and the Committee on National Statistics, National Academy of Sciences.
Professor Andrew Watterson (University of Stirling)

Andrew is Director of Research Director of Centre for Public Health and Population Health Research and Head of the Occupational and Environmental Health Research Group. He teaches public health and related courses. He is a board member of the International Cancer Prevention Campaign is a member of the European Network on Occupational and Environmental Cancer Prevention. He is a Chartered Fellow of Institution of Occupational Safety and Health Fellow Collegium Ramazzin.
Professor David Weir (University of Michigan)

David's current research interests include the measurement of health-related quality of life; the use of cost-effectiveness measures in health policy and medical decision-making; the role of supplemental health insurance in the Medicare population; the effects of health, gender, and marital status on economic well-being in retirement; and the effects of early-life experience on longevity and health at older ages. He also directs the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).