Work-in-progress
Mary's main EU law-themed project at present is a second monograph,
Solidarity in European Healthcare, under contract with Edward Elgar.
EU competition policy and national healthcare systems...
Mary’s research on competition reforms in healthcare included a focus on the impact of EU law on national healthcare systems.
This research served as a basis for further inquiry, such as:
- Possible future lines of inquiry for EU competition policy and cases involving public hospitals and healthcare following the perceived impasse of Casa Regina Apostolorum (Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2025)
- 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)
Wider work on EU health law and policy...
Mary’s work on wider EU health law and policy includes:
- analysis of the EU-level response to COVID-19 (OUP New York, 2023)
- 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)
EUHealthGov
EUHealthGov is a research network, funded by the University Association for Contemporary Studies (UACES) and the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, focused on the governance of health in the European Union. This event is part of its quarterly online seminar series, which provides a forum for discussion of a range of EU health governance topics, presented in roundtables, in-conversation sessions, work-in-progress seminars, practitioner perspectives and other formats.
Current co-ordinators: Dr Charlotte Godziewski (City/St George's University of London) and Dr Mary Guy (Trinity College Dublin).