PhD
September 1, 2008
School in Panel Data Econometrics: University of Leicester
Location: Leicester, England, UK
Dates: 1-5 September 2008
Application Deadline: 21 May 2008
We are pleased to announce the School in Panel Data Econometrics which will be held from the 1st to 5th of September 2008 at the University of Leicester. The aim of the School is to introduce participants to the techniques of panel data econometrics and their application to economic data.
The School is held by Professor Badi Baltagi and will be open to 20-25 participants. Applicants should submit a CV and a cover letter no later than 21 May 2008 to the following e-mail address: paneldata@le.ac.uk . For further information please see the following web page. http://www.le.ac.uk/economics/paneldata
or contact Dr. Francesco Moscone at the e-mail address: fm83@le.ac.uk
September 1, 2008: Short Course
September 17, 2008
Indirect and Mixed Treatment Comparisons
Location: Leicester, England, UK
Dates: 17-19 September 2008
Venue: Vaughan College
Course Organizers: Prof Keith Abrams, Prof Tony Ades, Debbi Caldwell, Dr Nicola Cooper, Dr Sofia Dias, Dr Alex Sutton and Dr Nicky Welton.
Intended Audience:
- Anyone undertaking or managing health technology assessments, including in the context of cost-effectiveness analysis.
- Statisticians, familiar with the principles of meta-analysis, who wish to learn about Bayesian methods for evidence synthesis particularly in the context of cost-effectiveness analysis.
- Anyone responsible for managing systematic reviews.
Overview: This course is for health economists, statisticians and decision modellers, and systematic reviewers interested in the extension of pair-wise meta-analysis to indirect and mixed treatment comparisons, in the context of either clinical effectiveness or economic evaluation.
The course focuses on Bayesian methods for statistically combining evidence from networks of trials, integrating statistical estimation within a probabilistic modeling framework. The assumptions underlying both pair-wise meta-analysis and mixed treatment comparisons are critically examined. The course also covers methods for detecting and managing heterogeneity and inconsistency.
This is an informal, hands-on course, based on a mixture of lectures and practical work on published datasets using the Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo package WinBUGS. Course tutors are available throughout to answer questions and help with exercises.
It is a collaboration between the Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester and the Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol.
Further Details and booking form can be downloaded at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cobm/research/mpes
September 17, 2008: Short Course
December 4, 2008
Health Econometrics Workshop
Location: Milan, Italy
Dates: 4-6 December 2008
Venue: University of Milan - Bicocca
In recent years, health econometrics has been playing an important role in supporting health and social care policy decisions. This Workshop provides the opportunity to disseminate advances in the methods and applications of health econometrics.
Submission of papers: Papers for the Workshop will be selected on the basis of full drafts. Papers should be sent in electronic form to the address healthecon@le.ac.uk no later than 1st September 2008. Decisions will be made by 20th September 2008. Authors will have the opportunity to submit their papers for publication in a special issue of Economic Modelling.
There will be 5 keynote speakers:
- Badi Baltagi - Syracuse University
- William Greene - New York University
- Alberto Holly - University of Lausanne
- Andrew Jones - University of York
- John Mullahy - University of Wisconsin
For further information about the Workshop you can contact Dr. Francesco Moscone at fm83@le.ac.uk or visit http://www.le.ac.uk/economics/healtheconometrics/
December 4, 2008: Short Course
January 11, 2009
Global Health Leadership Forum: University of California, Berkeley
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Dates: 11-18 January 2009
Venue: TBA
Website: http://ahlf.berkeley.edu/
An innovative program for senior health executives: a program from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, co-founded with UPF/CRES, Barcelona
Description: A certificate program in which renowned senior faculty and leaders from key international and national organizations interact with high-level participants regarding evidenced-based solutions to key policy and management issues. Participants grapple in a practical manner with the issues and options that have been converging internationally. The alumni network has over 100 leaders from 35 countries.
Sample Issues Include:
- Workshops on leadership and evidence-based management
- Effective policy implementation and strategies for health systems change
- How to assure quality
- Achieving appropriate public vs. private health insurance mix
- Innovations in payer and health delivery connections
- Lessons learned from managed care techniques / innovative budgeting techniques
- Using cost-effectiveness analysis to define “best coverage and delivery buys”
- Making use of the new consumerism
- “Information therapy” prescriptions for consumers
- Technology changes and future health care predictions
- Workshops on pandemic preparedness and health care ethics
- IT and care management systems including a field trip to Kaiser Permanente
Selected San Francisco Speakers:
- Sir Richard Feachem, First Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria;
- Ian Morrison, health care futurist;
- Leonard Schaeffer, founding Chairman of WellPoint; high level officials from Kaiser Permanente;
- Arnie Milstein, expert on health care purchasing, and expert faculty from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco.
Faculty Advisors: Richard M. Scheffler, Dean Stephen M. Shortell (UCB Faculty), Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas (UPF Barcelona), and Alex Preker (World Bank)
Program Director: Meg A. Kellogg
Email: ghlf@berkeley.edu
Applications: Currently being reviewed for San Francisco January 2009