Biography
Dr Mary Guy is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Health Policy and Management, and is currently working on the RESTORE project with Professor Steve Thomas. Prior to joining TCD in December 2025, Mary held Senior Lecturer and Lecturer roles in UK law schools, encompassing wide teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including PhD supervision, and administrative roles including Academic Masters Programme Manager and Director of International Student Exchange. Her external roles include being Co-coordinator of the interdisciplinary EU Health Governance (EUHEALTHGOV) Research Network funded by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), and the UK national contact point of the European Association for Health Law. Mary's research to date has focused on health law and policy at national and international levels, particularly public/private interaction in healthcare. Her written research has been published by the Health and Social Care Committee in the UK parliament, and published and cited by the Health and Social Care Committee in the Senedd. Following on from her first monograph, Competition Policy in Healthcare - Frontiers in Insurance-Based and Taxation-Funded Systems (Intersentia 2019), Mary has presented findings to the Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa), an Expert Panel of the Dutch Council of State, and the Belgian Competition Authority. Her second monograph, Solidarity in European Healthcare is under contract with Edward Elgar.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
State Aid and Healthcare: Between Competition and Constitutionalism in, editor(s)Narine Ghazaryan, Johan van de Gronden, Simon Tans, Marc Veenbrink , Services of General (Economic) Interest and EU Law: State of Play and Current Challenges, The Hague, 2026, [Mary Guy]
Tamara K Hervey, Ollie Bartlett, Joaquín Cayón-De las Cuevas, Vincent N Delhomme, André den Exter, Anniek de Ruijter, Mirko Ðukovi", Mark L Flear, Markus Frischhut, Éloïse Gennet, Tom Goffin, Mary Guy, Pin Lean Lau, Aurélie Mahalatchimy, Marcin Michalak, Vera Lúcia Raposo, Santa Slokenberga, and Annette Schrauwen, Conceptualising European Union Health Law, European Journal of Health Law, 3, 2026, p1-33
Mary Guy, On The Quiet Power of National Decisions: Hospitals, State Aid, and Services of General Economic Interest, Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, 53, (3), 2025, p345-355
Mary Guy and Lee Newcombe, NHS Patient Choice Policy in England: What Mapping the Private Healthcare Market for NHS Patients Can Tell Us, Liverpool Law Review, 46, 2025, p357-383
Mary Guy, Solidarity as a Political Determinant of Health: Insights from EU Competition Policy, Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, 49, (5), 2024, p783-803
Mary Guy and Okeoghene Odudu, Understanding `NHS privatisation': from competition to integration and beyond in the English NHS, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 74, (4), 2023, p739-764
Mary Guy, Dealing with "unworkable ideas in primary legislation": Juridifying and Dejuridifying Competition in the English National Health Service, Public Law, January 2023, 2023
Mary Guy, (How) is COVID-19 reframing interaction between the NHS and private healthcare?, Medical Law International, 3, (2), 2023, p138-158
COVID- 19: An Accelerating Force for EU Activity in Health? in, editor(s)Stefanie Börner and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser , European Social Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges to National Welfare and EU Policy, New York, Oxford University Press, 2023, pp246-271 , [Mary Guy]
Competition Law, Inequalities and Healthcare: Insights from EU and National Frameworks in, editor(s)Jan Broulík and Katalin Cseres , Competition Law and Economic Inequality, UK, Hart, 2022, [Mary Guy]
Elizabeth Kuiper and Mary Guy, Forging a European Health Union: Between subsidiarity and sovereignty?, EuroHealth, 28, (3), 2022, p50-52
Johan van de Gronden and Mary Guy, The role of EU competition law in health care and the 'undertaking' concept, Health Economics, Policy and Law, 16, (1), 2021, p76-89
Mary Guy, Rethinking Competition in Healthcare: Reflections from a small island, Competition Policy International Antitrust Chronicle, 2021
Mary Guy, Towards a European Health Union: What Role for Member States?, European Journal of Risk Regulation, 11, (4), 2020, p757-765
Mary Guy, Can Covid-19 change the EU competition law framework in health?, Observatoire Social Europeen / European Social Observatory Opinion Paper, Opinion Paper, (25), 2020
A legal perspective on tax-based versus insurance-based healthcare systems: comparing England and the Netherlands in, editor(s)J. Boertjens, M. Mikkers and W. Sauter , The Law and Policy of Healthcare Financing " A comparative approach to best practices,, UK, 2019, [Jos Boertjens and Mary Guy]
Mary Guy, Between 'Going Private' and 'NHS Privatisation': Patient choice, competition reforms and the relationship between the NHS and private healthcare in England, Legal Studies, 39, (3), 2019, p479-498
Mary Guy, Competition Policy in Healthcare: Frontiers in Insurance-Based and Taxation-Funded Systems, 1st, Cambridge, Intersentia, 2019
Mary Guy, Competition and sectoral regulation in Dutch and English healthcare, Ius Publicum, 2017
The History and Scope of EU Health Law and Policy in, editor(s)T.K. Hervey, C.A. Young, L.E. Bishop , Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2017, [Mary Guy and Wolf Sauter]
Andre den Exter and Mary Guy, Market competition in health care markets in The Netherlands: Some Lessons for England?, Medical Law Review, 2014
Research Expertise
Projects
- Title
- EU Health Governance (EUHEALTHGOV) Research Network
- Summary
- EUHealthGov is a network of academics, practitioners, researchers, policy-makers and other professionals interested in EU health law and policy. Co-coordinators: Dr Mary Guy (TCD) and Dr Charlotte Godziewski (City St Georges University London) https://euhealthgov.org/
- Funding Agency
- University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
- Date From
- Dec 2024
- Date To
- Dec 2026
- Title
- EU Health Governance (EUHEALTHGOV) Research Network
- Summary
- EUHealthGov is a network of academics, practitioners, researchers, policy-makers and other professionals interested in EU health law and policy. Co-coordinators: Dr Mary Guy, Dr Eleanor Brooks (Edinburgh), Dr Charlotte Godziewski (City St Georges University London) https://euhealthgov.org/
- Funding Agency
- University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
- Date From
- January 2021
- Date To
- December 2024
- Title
- EU Health Law and Policy - Shaping a Future Research Agenda
- Summary
- PI: Dr Mary Guy; Co-PI: Dr Eleanor Brooks (Edinburgh) Interdisciplinary (law/political science) project reviewing the emergence of EU health law and policy in the period 2017-2020. 1 workshop at Lancaster University (April 2018) with a world cafe format, bringing together experts at all career stages to identify research challenges. Output: Discussion paper (available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3196933) Workshop 2: November 2018 (Edinburgh). Presentation of working papers, development of a special issue of Health Economics, Policy and Law, "The Future of EU Health Law and Politics", published in January 2021. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/health-economics-policy-and-law/issue/39EFAF9B49AC3C13203740DBB289DA12
- Funding Agency
- British Academy (BA)
- Date From
- January 2018
- Date To
- March 2020 (extended from 2019)
Recognition
Representations
Co-coordinator of the EU Health Governance (EUHEALTHGOV) Research Network funded by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) 2021-2026. https://euhealthgov.org/
United Kingdom National Contact Point for the European Association for Health Law. https://eahl.eu/national-contacts
Series Editor of TMC Asser Press series, Legal Services of General Interest https://www.asser.nl/asserpress/books/?bookType=Series&seriesTitle=Legal+Issues+of+Services+of+General+Interest
Peer reviewer for health policy and law journals including: Health Economics, Policy and Law; Journal for Health Politics, Policy and Law; Medical Law Review; Social Policy and Administration; European Law Journal; Public Law; European Public Law; Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly; Legal Studies.
Peer reviewer for monograph proposals: Routledge; Edward Elgar; Hart
Peer Reviewer for grant applications: British Academy; Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) / The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences