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I completed my Masters in Economics at NUI Galway in 2004 and my Masters thesis, in conjunction with the East Coast Area Health Board, was titled ’An Economic evaluation of the Slan Abhaile home care programme’. Following this, I worked at Google before undertaking a Ph.D. in Economics at NUI Galway, which I recently completed. My doctoral thesis was titled ’Willingness to Pay for Community Based Care for Older People in Ireland’. This thesis examined preferences and willingness to pay for different types of technology-based programmes that support older people to continue living at home as well as more traditional forms of community based care. Following the completion of my Ph.D., I was a Post-doctoral researcher at the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology and the Department of Economics at NUI Galway. During this time, I was involved in assessing direct and indirect costs associated with obesity and overweight on the island of Ireland as part of Safefood funded research. I was also involved in researching older women workers and their access to pensions in a North-South collaboration with Queens University Belfast as well as understanding the health and well-being of older volunteers in Ireland in conjunction with Active Retirement Ireland. 

Research Interests

• Cost-effectiveness analysis of health and social care interventions.

• Understanding the use and non-use values associated with antimicrobial prescribing.

• The use of discrete choice experiments and experimental economics in understanding patient and doctor behaviour.

Other interests

• Non-market valuation techniques
• Economics of ageing and the economics of social care
• Applied econometrics

Teaching

I have been involved in teaching a number of courses for the Discipline of Economics including: Health Economics and the Economics of Public and Social Policy. During my PhD, I was also the teaching assistant for Managerial Economics and graduate Econometrics.

Selected Publications

Duvvury, N., NiLeime, A., Callan, A., Price, L., and Simpson, M., (2012). Older Women Workers' Access to Pensions: Vulnerabilities, Perspectives and Strategies. CARDI report. ISBN: 978-1-908358-04-02.  

Walsh, K. and Callan, A. (2011). Perceptions, Preferences, and Acceptance of Information and Communication Technologies in Older-Adult Community Care Settings in Ireland: A Case-Study and Ranked-Care Program Analysis. Ageing International, Vol. 36 (1), 102-122 (Article)
 
Callan, A. (2009). The Older Adult Health and Social Care Sector in The Role of Migrant Care Workers in Ageing Societies: Context and Experiences in Ireland by Walsh, K. and O'Shea, E. ICSG Report. 

Walsh, K., Callan, A., and Roberts, S. (2007). Social Audit of Assistive Technology for Older Adults in Ireland, Assistive Technology Research Series, Vol. 20.