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| Report on the 2025 Congress Now Available |
| The report on the 2025 Congress can be downloaded here. A few highlights from the report include:Nearly 2,800 abstracts were submitted, the largest number ever, with a relatively even distribution across the fields of health economics.Almost 40% of individual abstract submissions were from researchers in Asia and more than 45% were from researchers in low- and middle-income countries.The 38% response rate was the highest of any post-congress survey.The overall rating of the congress was 4.3 using a scale from 1 (very dissatisfied) to 5 (very satisfied), one of the highest satisfaction ratings compared to other congresses.There were high satisfaction levels with almost all aspects of the congress.Nearly 70% of respondents supported continuing with flash orals as an alternative to posters. Flash orals, a presentation style drawing on the increasingly popular “Pecha Kucha” and “Ignite” format of presentations were an innovation at the 2025 Congress.View recordings of many pre-congress sessions, and the best Flash Oral presentations, here. |
| IHEA SIG Updates |
| Remembering Allen Goodman It is with great sadness that we learnt of the untimely death on September 13 of Dr. Allen C. Goodman during a trip to France. He was on the faculty of the Department of Economics at Wayne State University for 36 years and was known as a passionate and inspiring teacher and a supportive mentor. |
| Allen was a driving force in the creation of the Teaching Health Economics Special Interest Group. He championed best practice in teaching across the world and played a huge part in sharing the great work that members of IHEA were doing in teaching the next generation of health economists. He and Maia Platt brought together information shared during the 2017 IHEA pre-congress session into the Elgar Handbook on Teaching Health Economics (pictured here with Allen’s beloved cat Jack). |
| His contributions to the Teaching Health Economics SIG will be missed greatly. Allen was always there with a smile, an encouraging word and an idea for a seminar. Our sincere condolences to his wife Janet, and daughter Sara. |
| Call for Submissions for Student Paper Prize |
| Are you a health economics Masters or Doctoral student? Why not submit a paper from your degree research for consideration for the 2026 Student Paper Prize. You could be on the stage in the opening plenary of the 2027 IHEA Congress in Ecuador. 2025 Student Paper Prize Winners |
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| Deadline: Monday, January 19, 2026 The International Health Economics Association (IHEA) is pleased to invite submissions for the Annual Student Paper Prize in Health Economics. Students are invited to submit their papers via the online system here (select the “Student Paper Prize” button and then the “Submit a Paper” button). You will be asked to complete a form and to upload two files:Your full paper (including abstract, tables, figures, references and any appendices)A cover letter, signed by your supervisor, which outlines your contribution to the paper and research on which it is based (percentage and nature of contribution – conceptualization, data collection, analysis, writing, etc.) and a description of the relative contribution of any co-authors. The student contribution should be at least 75%.More details on eligibility and submission requirements is available on our website. |
| Call for Submissions for Arrow Award |
| IHEA’s annual Arrow Award was created to recognize excellence in the field of health economics with the award presented to the author or authors of the paper judged to be the best paper published in health economics in English in the award year. The Award was set up in honour of the late Kenneth Arrow and in recognition of the influence of his seminal paper from 1963 “Uncertainty and the welfare economics of medical care”. |
| Deadline: Monday, January 19, 2026 In pursuit of greater diversity in the papers considered for this award, including the research topics and health system contexts where research is undertaken, IHEA would like to encourage its members to nominate papers published in peer-reviewed journals during 2025 that push the frontiers of health economics forward. Nominations for the Arrow Award can be submitted via a portal on the IHEA website (select the “Arrow Award” button and then the “Submit a Paper” button). You will be asked to provide a brief motivation and must upload a copy of the published paper. |
| Upcoming Events |
| Antidepressant Treatment in Childhood Date:Â October 6, 2025 Time:Â 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM UTC Speakers:Â Meltam Daysal Presented by:Â Economics of Risky Health Behaviors SIGLearn more here |
| Advancing Health Equity in Genomic Medicine through Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (DCEA) Date:Â October 8, 2025 Time:Â 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM UTC Speakers:Â Dr Melanie Lloyd and Dr Hadley Stevens Smith Presented by:Â Economics of Genomics and Precision Medicine SIG Learn more here |
| Do Vaping Taxes Tip the Scale? The Effect of E-Cigarette Taxation on Obesity Date:Â November 3, 2025 Time:Â 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm UTC Speakers:Â Dr Charles Courtemanche Presented by:Â Economics of Risky Health Behaviors SIG Learn more here |
| ECR Presentations: 1. Costs of Technological Frictions: Evidence from EHR (Non-Interoperability) 2. Sharing is Caring: The Role of Health Information Exchange on Patient Care Date:Â November 4, 2025 Time:Â 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm UTC Speakers:Â Kelsey Moran and Joseph Doyle Presented by:Â Economics of Digital Health Technology SIG Learn more here |
| The Introduction of PrEP on HIV: Incidence, Mortality and Heterogeneity Date:Â December 1, 2025 Time:Â 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm UTC Speakers:Â Sebastian Tello Presented by:Â Economics of Risky Health Behaviors SIG Learn more here |
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