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Dr. Mary Guy

Research Fellow (Public Health & Primary Care)
      
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Dr. Mary Guy

Research Fellow (Public Health & Primary Care)

 mguy@tcd.ie

 


Dr Mary Guy is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Health Policy and Management, and is currently working on the RESTORE project with Professor Steve Thomas. Prior to joining TCD in December 2025, Mary held Senior Lecturer and Lecturer roles in UK law schools, encompassing wide teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including PhD supervision, and administrative roles including Academic Masters Programme Manager and Director of International Student Exchange. Her external roles include being Co-coordinator of the interdisciplinary EU Health Governance (EUHEALTHGOV) Research Network funded by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), and the UK national contact point of the European Association for Health Law. Mary's research to date has focused on health law and policy at national and international levels, particularly public/private interaction in healthcare. Her written research has been published by the Health and Social Care Committee in the UK parliament, and published and cited by the Health and Social Care Committee in the Senedd. Following on from her first monograph, Competition Policy in Healthcare - Frontiers in Insurance-Based and Taxation-Funded Systems (Intersentia 2019), Mary has presented findings to the Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa), an Expert Panel of the Dutch Council of State, and the Belgian Competition Authority. Her second monograph, Solidarity in European Healthcare is under contract with Edward Elgar.
Project Title
 EU Health Governance (EUHEALTHGOV) Research Network
From
Dec 2024
To
Dec 2026
Summary
EUHealthGov is a network of academics, practitioners, researchers, policy-makers and other professionals interested in EU health law and policy. Co-coordinators: Dr Mary Guy (TCD) and Dr Charlotte Godziewski (City St Georges University London) https://euhealthgov.org/
Funding Agency
University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
Programme
Research Network funding
Project Title
 EU Health Governance (EUHEALTHGOV) Research Network
From
January 2021
To
December 2024
Summary
EUHealthGov is a network of academics, practitioners, researchers, policy-makers and other professionals interested in EU health law and policy. Co-coordinators: Dr Mary Guy, Dr Eleanor Brooks (Edinburgh), Dr Charlotte Godziewski (City St Georges University London) https://euhealthgov.org/
Funding Agency
University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
Programme
Research Network funding
Project Title
 EU Health Law and Policy - Shaping a Future Research Agenda
From
January 2018
To
March 2020 (extended from 2019)
Summary
PI: Dr Mary Guy; Co-PI: Dr Eleanor Brooks (Edinburgh) Interdisciplinary (law/political science) project reviewing the emergence of EU health law and policy in the period 2017-2020. 1 workshop at Lancaster University (April 2018) with a world cafe format, bringing together experts at all career stages to identify research challenges. Output: Discussion paper (available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3196933) Workshop 2: November 2018 (Edinburgh). Presentation of working papers, development of a special issue of Health Economics, Policy and Law, "The Future of EU Health Law and Politics", published in January 2021. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/health-economics-policy-and-law/issue/39EFAF9B49AC3C13203740DBB289DA12
Funding Agency
British Academy (BA)
Programme
BA / Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant

Details Date
Co-coordinator of the EU Health Governance (EUHEALTHGOV) Research Network funded by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) 2021-2026. https://euhealthgov.org/ 2021
United Kingdom National Contact Point for the European Association for Health Law. https://eahl.eu/national-contacts 2024
Series Editor of TMC Asser Press series, Legal Services of General Interest https://www.asser.nl/asserpress/books/?bookType=Series&seriesTitle=Legal+Issues+of+Services+of+General+Interest 2018
Peer reviewer for health policy and law journals including: Health Economics, Policy and Law; Journal for Health Politics, Policy and Law; Medical Law Review; Social Policy and Administration; European Law Journal; Public Law; European Public Law; Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly; Legal Studies.
Peer reviewer for monograph proposals: Routledge; Edward Elgar; Hart
Peer Reviewer for grant applications: British Academy; Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) / The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
Dutch Fluent Fluent Medium
French Fluent Fluent Fluent
German Fluent Fluent Fluent
State Aid and Healthcare: Between Competition and Constitutionalism in, editor(s)Narine Ghazaryan, Johan van de Gronden, Simon Tans, Marc Veenbrink , Services of General (Economic) Interest and EU Law: State of Play and Current Challenges, The Hague, 2026, [Mary Guy], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS  URL
Mary Guy, On The Quiet Power of National Decisions: Hospitals, State Aid, and Services of General Economic Interest, Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, 53, (3), 2025, p345-355 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Mary Guy and Lee Newcombe, NHS Patient Choice Policy in England: What Mapping the Private Healthcare Market for NHS Patients Can Tell Us, Liverpool Law Review, 46, 2025, p357-383 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Mary Guy, Solidarity as a Political Determinant of Health: Insights from EU Competition Policy, Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, 49, (5), 2024, p783-803 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
COVID- 19: An Accelerating Force for EU Activity in Health? in, editor(s)Stefanie Börner and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser , European Social Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges to National Welfare and EU Policy, New York, Oxford University Press, 2023, pp246-271 , [Mary Guy], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Mary Guy and Okeoghene Odudu, Understanding `NHS privatisation': from competition to integration and beyond in the English NHS, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 74, (4), 2023, p739-764 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Mary Guy, Dealing with "unworkable ideas in primary legislation": Juridifying and Dejuridifying Competition in the English National Health Service, Public Law, January 2023, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Mary Guy, (How) is COVID-19 reframing interaction between the NHS and private healthcare?, Medical Law International, 3, (2), 2023, p138-158 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Competition Law, Inequalities and Healthcare: Insights from EU and National Frameworks in, editor(s)Jan Broulík and Katalin Cseres , Competition Law and Economic Inequality, UK, Hart, 2022, [Mary Guy], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Elizabeth Kuiper and Mary Guy, Forging a European Health Union: Between subsidiarity and sovereignty?, EuroHealth, 28, (3), 2022, p50-52 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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