Ciaran O’Neill

Ciaran O'Neill was educated in Queens University Belfast where he was awarded a degree in economics in 1986 and a PhD in agricultural economics in 1990. He joined the Department of Economics in Queens as a lecturer in 1990, moving to the University of Nottingham in 1997.

He was appointed Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the University of Ulster in 2003 before moving to Queen’s University Belfast’s School Medicine and Dentistry in January 2007 as Professor of Oral Health Research.

He joined NUI Galway's J.E. Cairnes. School of Business and Economics as Professor of Health Technology Assessment in September 2008 and served as Dean of the College of Business, Public Policy and Law between 2013-2014 prior to taking up a Health Research Board Research Leader award in February 2014.

In November 2016 he was appointed Professor of Health Economics within the Centre for Public Health in Queens University Belfast while retaining an adjunct chair in health economics at NUI Galway.

He has held various visiting positions including positions at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica and the University of Michigan.

He was a Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy and Practice in 2001/2002, has been Chair of the Northern Ireland Health Economics Group, of Action Cancer’s Board of Trustees and is currently Chair of the Health Economics Association of Ireland.

He has served on several national scientific committees and provided policy advice to the Health Committee in Northern Ireland and the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland.

He has published over 150 peer reviewed publications as well as various reports arising from health economic studies nationally and internationally. He has undertaken reviews for various scientific funding agencies in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and New Zealand.