Stephen O’Neill is a Lecturer in Economics (Health Economics & Ageing) at the National University of Ireland Galway and a Visiting Research Fellow at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Stephen's primary research interests are in health economics and micro-econometric methods.  Stephen is particularly interested in translating methods from other fields within economics and from disciplines such as biostatistics, epidemiology,  political analysis and sociology, to the health economics domain. His current research focuses on the rigorous application of novel techniques to important problems within health economics. Stephen completed a first degree in Economics at University College Dublin followed by a Masters in Economic Policy (Evaluation and Planning) and PhD in Economics at National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG). Along with Prof. Owen O’Donnell (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Prof. Tom Van Ourti (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Dr. Brendan Walsh (Economic and Social research Institute), Stephen is the author of conindex, a command for the Stata statistical package, which computes a variety of inequality measures, including the concentration index and Gini coefficient.