Towards a New Analytical Framework to Critique Sugar Tax Policies

On Tuesday, July 31st at 10am, the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at ZSFG will host Gerardine Doyle, Professor at University College Dublin Quinn School of Business. Professor Doyle has collaborated with Dean Schillinger’s group on evaluating the sugar tax; the title of her talk is ‘A ‘Wicked Problem’: Towards a New Analytical Framework to Critique Sugar Tax Policies.'

Professor Doyle is Professor of Accounting & Taxation at University College Dublin, Ireland. 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 is also a Principal Investigator within the UCD research center, 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.