Maev-Ann Wren

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Maev-Ann Wren
NationalityIrish
Alma materTrinity College Dublin
University College Dublin
GenreNon-fiction

Maev-Ann Wren is an Irish economist, journalist, author, and former special advisor to the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Roisin Shortall. [1] [2] She is the former economics editor of The Irish Times newspaper. Wren has written two books about the Irish health system and her writings have often been mentioned during Dáil and Seanad debates, and in parliamentary committee. She has been described in the Seanad as "a recognised expert on health care." [3]

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Early life

Wren grew up in Rathmines and attended University College Dublin. [4] She graduated in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in history and economics; this was followed by a master's degree in economics from UCD and a PhD in economics from TCD. [5] [6] In 1978, she became the second female auditor in the history of the university's Literary and Historical Society. [7]

Career

Wren worked at The Irish Times from 1980 to 2004 where she covered economic, political and social matters and produced an award-winning series of articles. She has reported from Dublin, Belfast and the United States, and worked as a financial reporter, business features editor, economics editor, columnist, editorial writer and senior newspaper editor. She has studied and travelled in the United States on a World Press Institute fellowship, and was a Fordham University Ethics Center Fellow for 2005. [5] [8]

She won the 2001 National Media Award for newspaper analysis and comment for her October 2000 series, An Unhealthy State, on the Irish health system. The following year, she reached the short list for the 2002 National Media Award for Specialist Writer of the Year for her work on a series, States of Health, comparing Irish health care with other countries'. [8]

Her first book Unhealthy State — Anatomy of a Sick Society (2003) examined the crisis in Irish medical care, and described options for reform. Her second book, How Ireland Cares — The Case for Health Reform (2006) began life as a study of the Irish health system commissioned by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in preparation for negotiations with the government. It was written with American health economist Professor A. Dale Tussing. [9]

After leaving The Irish Times in 2004, Wren conducted independent research and graduated with a PhD in health economics from Trinity College Dublin, while continuing to contribute journalism and reports to The Sunday Business Post , Village magazine and the Economic and Social Research Institute's Quarterly Economic Commentary . [5] [8] She was formerly employed as a special advisor to the Labour Party Junior Minister Roisin Shortall (2011–2012). [2] She has worked as a researcher at the Centre for Health Policy and Management at TCD (2011–2012) and at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin (2013), where she was a senior research officer from 2014 to her retirement in 2022. She became an adjunct associate professor at the Geary Institute, University College Dublin in 2022.

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Wren is a Dubliner and is married to Cormac O'Rourke; they have two daughters, Claire and Sorcha. [10] [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Appointment of Special Adviser (Minister of State at the Department of Health) Order 2011 ( S.I. No. 586 of 2011 ). Signed on 15 November 2011. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland .Retrieved from Irish Statute Book .
  2. 1 2 Written Answers – Ministerial Staff The Oireachtas. Retrieved: 18 April 2012.
  3. ↑ Seanad Debate Archived 20 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine . Senator Ivana Bacik, 21 October 2008. Retrieved: 28 August 2010.
  4. ↑ Ruby and Silver Jubilarians UCD News, November 2003. Retrieved: 28 August 2010.
  5. 1 2 3 Biographical Sketch: Maev-Ann Wren Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Health Research Board, 2006. Retrieved: 28 August 2010.
  6. ↑ Economic and Social Research Institute Staff Details "Details". Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  7. ↑ L&H book review. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Spring 2006. Retrieved: 28 February 2010.
  8. 1 2 3 Visiting Lecturers: Maev-Ann Wren Archived 23 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine . Center for Ethics Education, Fordham University, New York. 2004. Retrieved: 28 February 2010.
  9. ↑ Mary Harney would do well to read this. Eilish O'Regan, Irish Independent. 2 July 2006. Retrieved: 28 February 2010.
  10. ↑ Maev-Ann Wren Archived 16 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine . New Island. Retrieved: 28 February 2010.
  11. ↑ Unhealthy State, Preface by Maev-Ann Wren. Dublin: New Island, 2003. ISBN   1-902602-88-9.

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