Did You Know?
IHEA strives to promote inclusion of health economists in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and students and other early career researchers (ECRs), who have less access to resources. These groups are provided with a 50% reduction in membership fees and a 40% reduction on congress registration fees. We also raise grants to provide financial support to LMIC health economists to participate in our congresses.
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Important updates on 2025 IHEA Congress
Change in Congress Location
It is with regret that, due to insurmountable challenges in delegates from Africa and some other low- and middle-income countries securing visas to attend scientific conferences in Canada, IHEA is changing the location of the 2025 Congress from Calgary to Bali. This decision reflects IHEA’s commitment to ensuring that all our events, structures and processes are inclusive, and that they enable participation by our diverse and global membership.
We are enormously grateful to the University of Calgary’s local organizing committee for their contributions in planning for the congress, and to the Indonesian Health Economics Association for being willing to host this congress at short notice.
More information will be provided in the near future; the Congress will be held on the same dates as originally planned: July 19-23, 2025.
Please see the full statement on the rationale for this location change here.
Key Dates for 2025 IHEA Congress
Please take note of the following timetable and deadlines for the 2025 Congress. The earlier deadline for abstract submissions than for previous congresses is to accommodate reviewer availability and to ensure adequate time for visa processing for delegates.
| 2024 | |
| Early August | Abstract submission system opens |
| 19 November | Abstract submissions close – this deadline will not be extended |
| 2025 | |
| Mid-February | Congress registration will open |
| 21 February | Abstract submitters will be informed of Scientific Committee’s decision |
| 10 April | Deadline for all presenters with an accepted abstract to register |
| 23 May | Online program will be available |
| 19-23 July | Pre-congress and congress |
Call for early career researchers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to submit draft abstracts for the 2025 IHEA Congress
IHEA will once again be offering support to early career researchers (ECRs) in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) who do not have access to senior colleagues at their institution. LMIC ECRs are able to submit a draft abstract by late September, for review and detailed feedback on how to improve the abstract. A team of established health economists will review each abstract and provide detailed feedback on how the abstract can be improved by late October, to allow researchers to finalize and submit their abstracts before the submission deadline of November 19th, 2024.
Those who would like to apply for such support should fulfill the following basic criteria:
- Must have graduated with their highest degree within the last five years;
- Must be a citizen of, and working or studying in, a LMIC; and
- The abstract must be on research undertaken in a LMIC.
As the purpose of this initiative is to provide support to LMIC ECRs who do not have access to senior collegial support, applicants should also fulfill the following criteria:
- If currently studying at a university in a high-income country, the abstract should not be for research that is being undertaken as part of their Masters or PhD for which they are receiving supervisory support;
- Be working in an institution that does not have senior health economics staff;
- The abstract should not have established health economists as co-authors.
Before drafting an abstract, please watch the recording of the webinar on “Successful Abstract Writing – Tips for the IHEA Congress”. This very helpful video recording is available in:
Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words and should be submitted, and the application form completed, here by September 26th, 2024.
LMIC ECRs who participate in the abstract support program, and whose abstract is selected by the Scientific Committee for presentation at the 2025 Congress, will be offered support in preparing their oral or poster presentation.
Call for volunteers to pre-review and comment on draft abstracts for the 2025 IHEA Congress from early career researchers (ECRs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
IHEA will once again be offering support to early career researchers (ECRs) in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) who do not have access to senior colleagues at their institution.
We are looking for experienced health economists to assist in reviewing these draft abstracts and providing detailed comments on how the abstracts can be improved before ECRs submit them for consideration by the 2025 Congress Scientific Committee. Each volunteer would be allocated a few abstracts in their area of research expertise.
If you are able to devote some time between October 1-23, 2024 to supporting LMIC ECRs develop competitive abstracts for the congress, please volunteer via this link by August 26th, 2024.
Update on IHEA’s mentoring program
IHEA initiated a mentorship program in 2019 to support early- and mid-career health economists in their professional development and personal wellbeing. There is an annual call for experienced health economists to volunteer to be mentors and for applications from IHEA members who would like to be mentees. As many mentee applicants as possible are matched with a mentor, based on common research interests and other preferences. The program consists of at least four meetings, mainly via a video conferencing platform (e.g. Zoom or MS Teams), over a one-year period.
There have been four rounds of the mentoring program to date, beginning with 47 mentors and 55 mentees in 2019/20, growing to 69 mentors and 97 mentees in 2022/23. In the last round, we were able to match every mentee applicant with a mentor. The figure below shows trends in the regional distribution of mentors and mentees over the initial four rounds.
Most mentors and mentees have provided very positive feedback on their experience in the program, and made valuable suggestions for improving it. The newly established Capacity Strengthening Committee is hard at work refining the program in preparation for a new intake of mentors and mentees later this year. The team is particularly exploring a web-based platform to improve mentor-mentee matching, regular communication with participants and overall management of the program. In addition, increased participation of mid-career mentees will be promoting.
We wanted to assure our members that the professional development mentorship program will continue, and that a call for mentors and mentees will be released in the coming months.
5th Meeting of the Asian Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics – Guangzhou, China, December 2024
We are delighted to announce the 5th Meeting of the Asian Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics, which will take place in Guangzhou, China, from Monday, December 16th to Thursday, 19th, 2024.
This year, the keynote lectures will be given by Professor Hanming Fang (University of Pennsylvania).
You can find the Workshop flyer here:
https://prj-wishproject.w.waseda.jp/asian-wehe/img/AW05_Flyer20240617.pdf
We warmly encourage you to submit your paper at http://www.waseda.jp/prj-wishproject/asian-wehe/index.html where you can also find further details and past programs.
The submission and registration form will become available in early July. The deadline for the paper submission is Tuesday August 13th, 2024.
We are looking forward to welcoming you to Guangzhou in December!
Sok Chul Hong (Seoul National University)
Tarun Jain (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad)
Karine Lamiraud (ESSEC Business School)
Xiaoyan Lei (Peking University)
Ming-Jen Lin (National Taiwan University)
Shiko Maruyama (Jinan University)
Haruko Noguchi (Waseda University)
Nada Wasi (Bank of Thailand)
Joanne Yoong (Research For Impact Singapore)
Asian Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics
SIG Updates
Economics of Children’s Health and Wellbeing SIG Welcomes New Conveners!
We are excited to announce the addition of three new conveners to our Special Interest Group:
- Rachel O’Loughlin: Convener for Early Career Researcher and Student Support and Development. Rachel is an Early Career Researcher based in Melbourne, Australia. She is a Research Fellow with the Child Health Economics Unit within the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Melbourne, a Research Fellow with Safer Care Victoria (Victorian State Government), and Co-Director of the Melbourne Academic Centre for Health (MACH) Health Services Research Future Leaders Fellowship Program. Rachel’s PhD examined value in children’s mental healthcare, in which she focussed on measuring health-related quality of life in children with mental health conditions and understanding consumer and carer perspectives of value in mental healthcare. She draws personal value in her work by striving to improve the quality of children’s healthcare in Australia.
- Dr. Corneliu Bolbocean: Convener for Early Career Researcher and Student Support and Development. Corneliu serves as a senior researcher in health economics at Oxford University in England, UK where he received an Award for Excellence for his contributions to the University. He is also the recipient of the Early Career Researcher Best Paper Prize 2023, presented at IHEA’s 15th World Congress on Health Economics in Cape Town, South Africa. Corneliu earned his Ph.D. in economics from Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, Canada. His research is focused on economic implications of preterm birth, children’s health and wellbeing and methodological issues related to quality of life outcomes in children.
- Dr. Ramesh Lamsal: Convener for International Collaborations. Ramesh is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, USA), specializing in Health Service Research with a concentration in health economics from the University of Toronto. His expertise encompasses evidence synthesis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and the utilization of administrative and electronic healthcare databases for health service research. He has worked on measuring costs and health outcomes for children with neurodevelopmental disorders and mental health interventions. Additionally, his methodological research focuses on measuring, valuing, and incorporating family spillover effects into economic evaluations of child health interventions.
We look forward to their contributions and leadership in these key areas.
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Join us!
Interested in Economics of child health and wellbeing? We welcome anyone interested in this research area. Specifically, we encourage individuals who are:
- Currently working on projects related to this field
- Have expertise in economics applied to child health and wellbeing
Please register on the SIG website Here
News from University Members
Summer/Autumn 2024 – Health Economics Short Courses – Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) – University of Oxford
Classroom-based: Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | 08-10 July 2024 | Venue: The Big Data Institute, Oxford (an additional optional module is available on the 11-12 July: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis In Stata Using Participant-Level Data)
If both courses are taken, this is an intensive week-long course for health economists and health professionals, with some knowledge of health economics, who wish to learn about the methodology of cost-effectiveness analysis as applied in health care.
Registration open now for both courses, which can be booked together or separately. Please see the main Applied Methods of Cost-effectiveness Analysis course page for full course details, including registration and pricing.
Classroom-based: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis In Stata Using Participant-Level Data | 11-12 July 2024 | Venue: The Big Data Institute, Oxford
This optional module follows straight after the Applied Methods Course, and is designed to reinforce the methods taught in the Applied Methods course. The module will provide an overview data preparation and analyses, using the statistical software Stata, and can be purchased together with the Applied Methods course or as a stand-alone course.
Please see the main Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Stata Using Participant-level Data course page for full course details, including registration and pricing.
Online: Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation | 24-25 September 2024
For health professionals and health researchers who would like to understand the basics of health economics and its relevance to the health service. No previous knowledge of economics is required. Please see the main Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation course page for full course details, including registration and pricing.
Early bird deadline – noon on 09 August 2024
Online: Inequality in Health and Health Care: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations| 06–08 November 2024
This course will cover theoretical concepts on inequity and inequality in health as well as its measurement. It will also provide an overview of selected available (longitudinal) household survey data and cohort studies that combine socio-economic and demographic variables along with various health measures – these datasets provide good sources for empirical inequality in health research. Please see the main Inequality in Health and Health Care: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations course page for full details, including registration and pricing.
Early bird deadline – noon on 27 September 2024
For full information on all of the above courses, including pricing and discounted rates for booking on more than one online course (applicable to certain online courses only) please visit https://www.herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-courses or contact us via e-mail at herc@ndph.ox.ac.uk
If you would like to make a group booking, please contact us at herc@ndph.ox.ac.uk for more details.
To be placed on a waiting list, please visit https://oxford.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/waiting-list–herc-short-courses-2024 and we will notify you when registration(s) have opened.
Benefit-Cost Analysis: Valuing Life and Health program
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is offering the Benefit-Cost Analysis: Valuing Life and Health program from September 16-20, 2024.
In this online course, Lisa A. Robinson, a leading Harvard expert on benefit-cost analysis, will aid you in understanding the basic analytic framework and its application globally. By the end of the course, you will:
- Understand the fundamental concepts that underlie benefit-cost analysis and its advantages and limitations
- Identify the major components of a benefit-cost analysis and what each should include
- Know methods for valuing changes in health and longevity and the estimates recommended for use in high-, middle-, and low-income settings
- Increase familiarity with methods for valuing health and longevity, including revealed—and stated—preference studies and their application
- Learn about sources of guidance, including default values
Visit the Harvard Chan School website for more information: https://bit.ly/3U3smdL. Questions can be directed to Kristen Scott at kescott@hsph.harvard.edu.
Applying Discrete Choice Experiments In Health Economics – September 24-26, 2024 – University of Aberdeen
The HERU short course on ‘Applying Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics’ will take place in Aberdeen, Scotland, from 24th-26th September 2024.
The course is aimed at researchers interested in the application of Discrete Choice Applications (DCEs) and provides:
An introduction to the theoretical and practical basis for the development and application of DCEs in health economics.
A step by step guide to the design of DCEs, questionnaire development, data input, data analysis and interpretation of results – using case studies based on published research.
An update on methodological issues raised in the application of DCEs in health economics.
The course fee includes teaching material, accommodation, all lunches, a course welcome reception and dinner. The course lasts for three full days (from Tuesday morning to Thursday afternoon), with a course meal at the end. Accommodation is provided for four nights (Monday to Thursday).
Registration and further details are available from the DCE course website.
Please note that the closing date for registration is 13th September 2024 (registering before 23rd August saves £100 on the delegate booking fee) and there are limited spaces available.
Details
Date – 24th to 26th September, 2024
Website – https://www.abdn.ac.uk/heru/short-course-on-using-dces-in-health-economics-1032.php
Venue – Park Inn by Radisson hotel, Aberdeen, Scotland.
Upcoming Events
Reorganized Social Security for contributing to the Health System’s Efficiency during COVID – 19: An experience from Dominican Republic
Date: July 23, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 AM EDT / 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM UTC
Featuring speaker: Leticia Martínez MARTIÑON
Stay tuned for more on upcoming IHEA webinars! You can view all 2024 events here.
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