Dr Paddy Gillespie joined the ICSG as a post-doctoral researcher in economics in April 2010. Paddy completed his PhD in 2009 on “An Economic Evaluation of the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in General Practice” at the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway. He has researched in the fields of health economics and health technology assessment on a variety of subjects including secondary prevention, health promotion and screening across a range of areas including coronary heart disease, diabetes, multimorbidity, and infectious disease. He has also taught and contributed to a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses for the departments of Economics, Psychology, Health Promotion and General Practice at NUI Galway. 


Publications  

The cost effectiveness of the SPHERE intervention for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. 2010;26(3) (with Eamon O’Shea, Andrew Murphy, Margaret Cupples, Susan Smith, Mary Byrne and Molly Byrne) 

Health Policy in Ireland. in Healy, S., Reynolds, B. and Collins, M. (Eds.), Social Policy in Ireland: Principles, Practice and Problems, (pp. 271-295). Dublin: The Liffey Press. 2006 (with Eamon O’Shea)   

Conference Papers 

The cost effectiveness of opportunistic screening for Chlamydia trachomatis in primary care in Ireland. 7^th Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Conference, 2010, Dublin(with Ciaran O’Neill, Elisabeth Adams, Katy Turner, Diarmuid O’Donovan, Ruairi Brugha, Deirdre Vaughan, Emer O’Connell, Claire Coleman, Catherine Fleming, Martin Cormican and Myles Balfe) 

The healthcare burden of gestational diabetes mellitus in Ireland. 7^th Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Conference, 2010, Dublin (with Fidelma Dunne, Ciaran O’Neill, Gloria Avalos and Michael O’Reilly) 

The cost effectiveness of secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in both health systems on the island of Ireland. Irish Health Economic Conference.2010, Belfast (with Eamon O’Shea, Andrew Murphy, Margaret Cupples, Susan Smith, Mary Byrne and Molly Byrne)  

The cost effectiveness of a complex intervention for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. 7^th European Health Economics Conference. 2008, Rome. Belfast (with Eamon O’Shea, Andrew Murphy, Margaret Cupples, Susan Smith, Mary Byrne and Molly Byrne)