Work-in-progress
Mary's main project at present is a second monograph, Solidarity in European Healthcare, under contract with Edward Elgar.
Mary’s research on competition reforms in healthcare included a focus on the impact of EU law – for example, the scope for parallel application of EU and national competition law. This served as a basis for further inquiry, such as:
- How solidarity may function as a political determinant of health based on insights from the EU competition policy context (Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 2024)
- What recent cases such as Casa Regina Apostolorum and Lekarna Ljubljana can tell us about future directions for applying the EU state aid rules in the healthcare context (EU Law Live, 2023 and 2024)
- How EU and national competition law may operate to address health inequalities (Hart, 2022)
- How a new framing of the “undertaking” concept (developed by Professor Johan van de Gronden) may function in the healthcare context (Health Economics, Law, and Policy 2021)
- Whether the EU competition law framework could be changed by the State Aid Temporary Framework introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (Observatoire Social Européen, 2020)
Mary’s work on wider EU health law and policy includes:
- analysis of the EU-level response to COVID-19 (OUP New York, 2023)
- the EUHealthGov research network funded by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) 2021-2026 (with Dr Eleanor Brooks (Edinburgh) and Dr Charlotte Godziewski (City))
- moderation of the Health in Europe virtual seminar series (September 2020 – December 2022)
- a British Academy-funded project (with Dr Eleanor Brooks (Edinburgh)) on shaping a future research agenda for EU health law and policy which culminated in a special issue of Health Economics, Policy, and Law (2021)
- considerations of how the national competence for healthcare (Article 168(7) TFEU) could function in the development of a European Health Union in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (European Journal of Risk Regulation 2020)