Maev-Ann Wren

Ms. Maev-Ann Wren is Senior Research Officer at The Economic & Social Research Institute.
She is joint Research Area Coordinator for Health and Quality of Life research at the ESRI.
She is one of the lead researchers of a three-year programme of research, funded by the Department of Health, to provide evidence for the reform of the healthcare system, which commenced in July 2014.
She was lead author of the first major publication from that programme, the ESRI Research Series Report “An Examination of the Potential Costs of Universal Health Insurance in Ireland”, which was published in November 2015.
She is also one of the lead researchers on a Health Research Board-funded project, which started in 2015 and will analyse the need for and the supply and utilisation of health and social services by area and the effects of non-acute service supply on acute hospital utilisation in Ireland.
Ms. Wren was lead researcher on the Stroke Rehabilitation in Ireland project, which reported in September 2014.
She worked as Special Advisor to Roisin Shortall T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for Primary Care, from 2011 to 2012.
With Professor A.
Dale Tussing of Syracuse University, New York, she was commissioned in 2005 by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to review the Irish health care system and recommend reform.
Their study was subsequently published as Tussing and Wren (2006) How Ireland Cares, New Island, Dublin.
She worked as a journalist for The Irish Times from 1980 to 2004 in posts including Economics Editor, columnist, editorial writer and Assistant Editor.
She has a PhD in Economics from Trinity College Dublin (TCD), an MA in Economics from University College Dublin (UCD), and a BA in Economics and History from UCD.