Gerardine Doyle
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Gerardine Doyle recently served as Dean of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and Associate Dean of the UCD College of Business, 2018-2023 concurrently. As a pharmacologist and Chartered Accountant she is an international interdisciplinary researcher, bringing the disciplines of medicine and management together with a particular focus on measurement in health care, specifically the measurement of health literacy and the measurement of value. Gerardine Doyle has been Principal Investigator in the conduct of large inter-disciplinary EU funded comparative research projects addressing global health challenges including health literacy, diabetes literacy, childhood obesity and the measurement of value in the care of people with dementia, children with cystic fibrosis and women with preeclampsia.
She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School where she has led a comparative study of the care of children with cystic fibrosis across Boston and Dublin and is currently conducting a US/Ireland/Italy comparative study concerning health care worker wellbeing. She has previously been a visiting scholar at Bocconi University and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Gerardine Doyle joins the Paris IAS in February 2027 for a one-month writing residency.
Research topics
Value Measurement of Healthcare Delivery; Measurement of Health Literacy; One Health/ Planetary Health Literacy; Health Disparities for Marginalised Populations; The Lived Experience of Persons Living with a Medical Condition;Food Environment; AI in Health Care.
A reflection on the sociology of time to deepen our understanding of the societal costs of living with a medical condition
This research summarises reflections on twenty five years of researching the measurement of the cost of health service delivery. While prior health economic and accounting literature has focussed on the cost to the health system, there is a dearth of research on the ‘hidden cost’ to the person. A consistent theme emerging from qualitative data collected from persons living with various medical conditions is the cost and different meanings of ‘time’.
Our data over many types of medical conditions reveal this awareness of time and temporality - time past, present time and future time where past events were recalled and reconstructed by clinicians, patients and family members, future events were expected, anticipated and prepared for with a view to immediate and more distant action. This interdisciplinary theoretical project will make a novel contribution to the health economic and accounting literatures to deepen our understanding of the complexity and broader meaning of time as a hidden cost of poor health and well-being which has not been acknowledged. Drawing upon theories of time may allow social scientists, medics and policy makers to identify and address such hidden societal costs.
Key publications
Carmen Jochem, Gerardine Doyle, Kristine Sørensen, Ilona Kickbusch, Simon Rüegg, Saskia Maria De Gani, "A call for a shared future vision for Planetary and One Health Literacy", Health Promotion International, Volume 40, Issue 6, December 2025, daaf200
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daaf200
Emma Brady, Ryan Perkins, Kate Cullen, Gregory Sawicki, Robert Kaplan, Gerardine Doyle, (2025) Innovations in evaluating ambulatory costs of Cystic Fibrosis care: A comparative study across multidisciplinary care centres in Ireland and the United States, NEJM Catalyst (6:2)
DOI: 10.1056/cat.24.0095
Doyle, G. A., O'Donnell, S., Cullen, K., Quigley, E., Gibney, S., (2022) The Diabetes Literacy Consortium, Understanding the cost of care of type 2 diabetes mellitus - a value measurement perspective, BMJ Open
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daaf200
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