In August 2018 Cork University Business School (CUBS) in collaboration with Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) Vietnam and Vietnam University of Agriculture (VNUA) were awarded a €81,582 Irish Aid grant as part of the Vietnam Ireland Bilateral Exchange (VIBE) Programme.  Dr Noel Woods, Director of Centre for Policy Studies is the CUBS lead investigator on the project titled ‘Building Capacity in Evaluating Investment Efficiency of Agricultural Project’.  

The State’s prescription bill could reach a massive €2 billion by 2026, a new study has predicted.

A HRB-funded study, led by Dr Noel Woods in UCC, estimates that as Ireland’s older population increases, the State could face an annual bill of €2 billion by 2026.

Dr Noel Woods, Lecturer in Economics at the Centre for Policy Studies UCC, has received news that the ADVOCATE project, of which he is the Ireland Principle Investigator, has been awarded a €6 million grant from the European Commission.

A highly successful conference titled “Community Drug Expenditure and Recent Cost Containment Measures” took place at Hayfield Manor Cork on February 13^th 2015.