Dr Mahon is a health economist and Assistant Professor in Economics at the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics at the University of Galway. He is also a member of the committee of the Health Economics Association of Ireland.
Dr Mahon holds a Ph.D. in Health Economics from the University of York and has worked in various healthcare industry positions including Head of Value and Access at Novartis. He has developed numerous decision-analytic models which assessed the cost-effectiveness of new health technologies, with several of these published as peer-reviewed scientific papers.
At the University of Galway, Dr Mahon teaches Health Economics and general Economics modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Dr Mahon’s research interests include equity in Health Economic Evaluation, threshold estimations, and payment models.