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Professor Charles Normand

Fellow Emeritus (Public Health & Primary Care)
Fellow Emeritus (Trinity Business School)
Fellow Emeritus (School Office - Medicine)
      
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Professor Charles Normand

Fellow Emeritus (Public Health & Primary Care)

 Charles.Normand@tcd.ie

 

Fellow Emeritus (Trinity Business School)

Fellow Emeritus (School Office - Medicine)


Charles Normand is Edward Kennedy Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. He was for thirteen years Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and remains a visiting professor there. He has worked also at the universities in Belfast, York and Stirling. He was a civil servant in Northern Ireland for four years and has worked in hospital management, including a period as chairman of the board at Central Middlesex Hospital and is currently on the boards of St. James's Hospital and Trinity Health Ireland. His BA and DPhil are in economics. Much of his work is on the evaluation of treatments and services, with a particular interest on neonatal technologies, heart disease and the major cancers. His has also worked on finance and delivery of health services and health care human resources. He has a particular interest in the consequences of population ageing on health and social care. He has carried out advisory work and research on health care reform in the new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, in Bangladesh, Malawi, Tanzania and in South Africa. He has published widely on health economics and financing, is author of two guidebooks on health insurance and of a textbook on health economics. He is a former President of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region and chairs the steering committee of the WHO European Observatory on Health Systems and Policy.
  Age related diseases   Ageing, stroke, dementia   Biomedical ethics   Cervical cancer   Community health and general practice   Econometric and statistical analysis   Economics of health service provision   Economics of public policy   Epidemiology   Health informatics   Health management   Health outcomes   Health policy   Health status and inequalities   Identification and quantification of health care needs   Management, information technology, information systems   Mathematical modelling   Midwifery   Patterns of health   Primary care   Public health   Public, private mix network   Research issues specifice to any health profession   Taxation
Project Title
 Cervical Cancer Research Programme (Cerviva)
From
2007
To
Summary
Leading the Health Economic aspects of the programme
Funding Agency
Health Research Board
Project Title
 Motivation Project
From
2007
To
2009
Summary
A stduy of motivation of health workers in Malawi, Tanzania and South Africa, in associciation with Centre for Health Policy, University of the Witwatersrand, College of Medicine, University of Malawi and National Institute of Medical Research, Tanzania
Funding Agency
Irish Aid via HRB
Project Title
 Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing
From
2007
To
Summary
I am a co-PI on Tilda, a collaborative study by 5 Higher Education institutions in Ireland led by Professor Rose Anne Kenny of TCD
Funding Agency
Irish Life, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Project Type
Longitudinal Study
Project Title
 Revolutionising Chronic Disease Management with ICT
From
2006
To
Summary
A study of chronic disease management, using the case of epilepsy, led from Beaumont Hospital. A particualr focus is the role of ICT. TCD is leading on the evaluation aspects of the project,
Funding Agency
Health Research Board
Project Title
 Social Health Insurance - Options for Ireland
From
2005
To
Summary
This project examines the options for financing health care in Ireland, with a particular focus on the possibility of universal social health insurance
Funding Agency
Adelaide Hospital Society
Project Type
Research and Modelling

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President of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region 2003-2005
Chair of Steering Committee of the WHO European Observatory on Health Systems and Policy 2001-
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Health Economics Study Group 1982
Peter May, Charles Normand, Samantha Smith, Karen Ryan, Bridget M. Johnston, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Rose Anne Kenny, Frank Moriarty, Mark Ward, R. Sean Morrison, Bryan Tysinger, How many people will live and die with serious illness in Ireland to 2040? Es" timated needs and costs using microsimulation, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Smith S, Brick A, Johnston B, Ryan K, McQuillan R, O'Hara S, May P, Droog E, Daveson B, Morrison RS, Higginson IJ, Normand C., Place of Death for Adults Receiving Specialist Palliative Care in Their Last 3 Months of Life: Factors Associated With Preferred Place, Actual Place, and Place of Death Congruence., Journal of Palliative Care., 2024, Notes: [doi: 10.1177/08258597241231042. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38404130.], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Johnston BM, Miller M, Normand C, Cardona M, May P, Lowney AC. BMC Palliat Care. 2024 Feb 20;23(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s12904-024-01384-9. PMID: 38374101; PMCID: PMC10877897., Primary data on symptom burden and quality of life among elderly patients at risk of dying during unplanned admissions to an NHS hospital: a cohort study using EuroQoL and the integrated palliative care outcome scale., BMC Palliative Care, 2024, Notes: [Feb 20;23(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s12904-024-01384-9. PMID: 38374101; PMCID: PMC10877897.], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Higginson IJ, Brown ST, Oluyase AO, May P, Maddocks M, Costantini M, Bajwah S, Normand C, Bausewein C, Simon ST, Ryan K, Currow DC, Johnson MJ, Hart SP, Mather H, Krajnik M, Tanzi S, Ghirotto L, Bolton CE, Janowiak P, Turola E, Jolley CJ, Murden G, Wilcock A, Farsides B, Brown JM; BETTER-B consortium., Mirtazapine to alleviate severe breathlessness in patients with COPD or interstitial lung diseases (BETTER-B): an international, multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 mixed-method trial., Lancet Respiratory Medicine., 12(10):763-774., (10), 2024, p763 - 774, Notes: [doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(24)00187-5. Epub 2024 Sep 9. PMID: 39265600.], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Matthews S, Hurley E, Johnston BM, Kane P, Ryan K, Tiernan E, Normand C, May P., Does a palliative medicine service reduce hospital length of stay and costs in adults with a life-limiting illness?-a difference-in-differences evaluation of service expansion in Ireland., Annals of Palliative Medicine, 13, (4), 2024, p766-777. , Notes: [doi: 10.21037/apm-23-479. PMID: 39108246.], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Musiega A, Nyawira L, Tsofa B, Njuguna RG, Munywoki J, Hanson K, Mulwa A, Molyneux S, Maina I, Normand C, Jemutai J, Barasa E., Budget monitoring, accountability practices and their influence on the efficiency of county health systems in Kenya., PLOS Global Public Health., 2023, Notes: [doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001908.], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
May P, Moriarty F, Hurley E, Matthews S, Nolan A, Ward M, Johnston B, Roe L, Normand C, Kenny RA, Smith S., Formal health care costs among older people in Ireland: methods and estimates using The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)., HRB Open Research, 2023, Notes: [Mar 4;6:16. doi: 10.12688/hrbopenres.13692.1. PMID: 37829548; PMCID: PMC10565419.], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Kinchin I, Walshe V, Normand C, Coast J, Elliott R, Kroll T, Kinghorn P, Thompson A, Viney R, Currow D, O'Mahony JF., Expanding health technology assessment towards broader value: Ireland as a case study., International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 2023, Notes: [May 2;39(1):e26. doi: 10.1017/S0266462323000235. PMID: 37129030.], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Nyawira L, Njuguna RG, Tsofa B, Musiega A, Munywoki J, Hanson K, Mulwa A, Molyneux S, Maina I, Normand C, Jemutai J, Barasa E., Examining the influence of health sector coordination on the efficiency of county health systems in Kenya., BMC Health Services Research, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Mbau R, Musiega A, Nyawira L, Tsofa B, Mulwa A, Molyneux S, Maina I, Jemutai J, Normand C, Hanson K, Barasa E., Analysing the Efficiency of Health Systems: A Systematic Review of the Literature., Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 2023, Notes: [Mar;21(2):205-224. doi: 10.1007/s40258-022-00785-2. Epub 2022 Dec 28. PMID: 36575334; PMCID: PMC9931792.], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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Irene J. Higginson, Jenny Shand, Glenn Robert, Annette Boaz, Catherine French, Msc, Andreia Carvalho N"Djai, Mary Malone, Ingrid Wolfe, Charles Normand, and Matthew Hotopf, Reimagining Health and Care to Tackle the Rising Tide of Inequity, Multimorbidity, and Complex Conditions, NEJM Catalyst 2024, 2024, Notes: [September 11], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Ó Céilleachair A, O'Mahony JF, O'Connor M, O'Leary J, Normand C, Martin C, Sharp L., Health-related quality of life as measured by the EQ-5D in the prevention, screening and management of cervical disease: A systematic review., Qual Life Res. , 26, (11), 2017, p2885-2897 , Notes: [doi: 10.1007/s11136-017-1628-z.], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
May P, McGarrigle C, Normand C, The end of life experience of older adults in Ireland, Dublin, TILDA, Trinity College Dublin, December, 2017, Report, PUBLISHED
Alan Barrett, George Savva, Virpi Timonen and Rose Anne Kenny (eds), Fifty plus in Ireland 2011: First results from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, May, 2011, Report, PUBLISHED
Charles Normand, A Weber (with Guy Carrin, Ole Doetinchem, Inke Mathauer, Xenia Scheil-Adlung and Jean-Olivier Schmidt), Social Health Insurance, A Guidebook for Planning, Second, Bad Homburg, VAS, 2009, 1-158pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Barbara McPake and Charles Normand, Health Economic - an international perspective, 2, London and New York, Routledge, 2008, 312pp, Book, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Visiting Professor of Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 2002
Health Economics, Health Care Financing, Health Systems Research, Health Policy, Ageing and Health, Health Sector Management, Economic Evaluation.