Emeritus Professor Michael Rigby is now working as an independent expert and his areas of interest include health policy, health service design, integrated care, equity of access, and quality assurance.
He also studies information systems and e-health and is an active member of the Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association dealing with evaluation and evidence regarding health informatic systems.
He has held professorial appointments at Keele University and Imperial College in the UK, the Nordic School of Public Health in Sweden, and Dublin City University; he currently supervises health policy doctoral students at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
Professor Rigby also has extensive practical experience in health care development and delivery and has worked on health system design in several jurisdictions. This has included lead roles in designing, implementing and managing innovative population screening services in the UK.
More recently he has designed and led or co-led several European research projects each of which involved every EU Member State. He has undertaken projects with the World Health Organisation, OECD, and the European Science Foundation.
He has written extensively on health research and policy, and (co)edited a number of books, most recently on Evidence Based Health Informatics and on Primary Health Care for Children in Europe.
Professor Rigby is a member of the Board of HIQA, and a member of the Roster of Experts supporting the new WHO Digital Health Technical Advisory Group.