Dr. Mairin Ryan has been appointed Director of Health Technology Assessment at the Health Information and Quality Authority. 

Mairin joined the interim Health Information and Quality Authority in 2006 to project manage the establishment of the Health Technology Assessment function in the new Authority. She has extensive experience in the field - prior to joining the interim Authority she was Chief 1 Pharmacist at the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics and also lectured in Pharmacoeconomics in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Trinity College Dublin.

Mairin’s research interests include health economic analysis in the Irish setting, economic incentives in pharmaceutical policy in Ireland, and economic analysis of HIV treatment. She is the principal investigator on a number of pharmacoeconomic analyses of HIV interventions in African countries.

In setting up Ireland’s first independent and statutory Health Technology Assessment function, Mairin and her team will be responsible for establishing and overseeing the systematic processes for evaluating the clinical and cost effectiveness of technologies adopted by Ireland’s health services.

“Health Technology Assessment is a vital necessity for any modern health system and is therefore key for Ireland’s health services. It is about making sure that the resources in our health services are used in a way that ensures the best outcome for the person using the service. The Authority is delighted that someone as skilled and experienced as Mairin will be leading this function and I look forward to working closely with her in the years ahead”, said Dr. Tracey Cooper CEO, the Health Information and Quality Authority.

Mairin said; “This is an exciting and challenging role. Over the coming months I will be engaging with healthcare providers and their staff, the general public, service user organizations and industry to hear their views in relation to Health Technology Assessment, raise the awareness and understanding of the work we are doing and how it will benefit those working in and those using our health services. We will also work with organisations undertaking similar work in Ireland and internationally”.

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Further Information: 

Anne Dalton / Laurie Mannix, MRPA KINMAN Communications 01 678 8330