Máirín joined HIQA as Director of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in September 2007. Prior to this appointment, Máirín was the Chief 1 Pharmacist at the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics and previously a senior clinical pharmacist at St James’s Hospital in Dublin with responsibility for HIV clinical pharmacy services. She holds a doctorate from Trinity College Dublin as well as postgraduate qualifications in Health Economics and Clinical Pharmacy.

She and her team are responsible for conducting assessments of health technologies including drugs, devices, diagnostics and public health programmes. The assessments help inform safe and effective health policy and health service decisions which are patient centred and deliver value. HIQA also conducts evidence synthesis to support the development of National Clinical Guidelines, to inform public health policy and to inform the generic justification of use of ionising radiation in healthcare.