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Dr Noel Woods BA, MA, PhD, MATLHE

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Dr Noel Woods BA, MA, PhD, MATLHE

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Address Centre For Policy Studies

5 Bloomfield Terrace

Western Road

Cork

Telephone: 353 21 4902578
Fax: 353 21 4903658
Email:
ei.ccu@sdoow.n

Biography:

 Dr Woods was appointed as College Lecturer in Economics in UCC in 1997.  He received a BA in Economics and Computer Studies in 1995, followed by an MA in Economics in 1996. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics in 2005 and a Masters Degree in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (MATLHE) in UCC in 2010.   

In 2007, Dr Woods received the Presidents Award for Excellence in Teaching.  His research interests include health economics and in 2007 Dr Woods, as Principal Investigator, received a major grant from the Health Research Board to analyse methods of financing dental services. Dr Woods is a referee for the Journal of the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry  and the European Association of Dental Public Health, and is economic advisor to the National Guidelines Group for the Development of Guidelines for the Use of Topical Fluorides in Dental Health. He is currently economic advisor to the Ministry of Health, Malaysia in developing viable options on financing oral healthcare for Malaysians. He has published widely in the area of dental health economics. In June 2011, Dr Woods was awarded as Principal Investivator ¿230,000 from the HRB to research 'National and Regional Projections of GMS Community Drug Costs in Ireland to 2025 and an integrated model for analysing policy choices'.



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