Christopher is part of the Irish Government Economic & Evaluation Service and the Head of Strategic Research & Evaluation in the Department of Health. He has two decades of experience working at the interface between research evidence and decision making across the private sector, not for profit, public service agencies and Government Departments. In his current position Christopher leads a team of 15 economists and social scientists, providing analytical support in areas of strategic importance to Health: hospital productivity; infrastructure and workforce capacity planning; health system financing including population-based resource allocation design; behavioural interventions to support public health; pharmaceutical price setting; eligibility expansion and uptake. The Strategic Research & Evaluation Unit represents the Department at the OECD and is responsible for the Joint Research Programme with the ESRI, the HRB Evidence Synthesis Service and TILDA. The team has won 2 Miriam Hederman O’Brien Awards for outstanding contribution to fiscal policy and a Civil Service Excellence Award for Insights Driven Decision Making.
Christopher was educated in Trinity College Dublin and the London School of Economics.