Gerardine is Director of the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Associate Dean of the College of Business and Professor of Accounting & Taxation at University College Dublin. Gerardine’s research is interdisciplinary spanning the disciplines of accounting, taxation, economics, medicine, public health and sociology. During 2017 Gerardine spent six months as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School, hosted by Professor Robert Kaplan, researching value measurement in health care. Gerardine has been Principal Investigator in the conduct of large inter- disciplinary EU funded comparative research projects that have addressed key health policy challenges including health literacy, diabetes self-management and childhood obesity and is currently engaged in a study designed to evaluate the Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax. Gerardine was a founding Principal Investigator within the UCD research centre, Applied Research in Connected Health (ARCH) researching cost and value measurement concerning the adoption, deployment and sustainability of digital health solutions. A key motivation driving Gerardine’s work is to deliver societal impact by engaging in societal-challenge orientated research to influence national and international policy with special emphasis on health, tax and education policy.