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Congress Resources Now Available
Session recordings
The Opening Plenary recording and those for several of the pre-congress sessions are now available on the Congress website here. More recordings will be uploaded when they become available. The organizers of some of the pre-congress sessions have also agreed to make the presentation slides available.
Abstract book
The 2025 Congress abstract book is also available on the Congress website here. Please note that it has an ISBN number, so it can be included in your CV as a publication.
Watch the best flash oral presentations
To see how your research can be presented successfully in 3 minutes, check out the recordings of those whose Flash Oral presentations at the 2025 Congress were judged to be the best here:
- Wala Kamchedzera: “Infecting the Wallet: The Economic Burden of Healthcare Associated Infections in Malawi.”
- Sovathiro Mao: “What Contributes to Out-of-pocket Health Expenditure in Cambodia’s Uncovered Population? A Distributional and Decomposition Analysis Using Survey Data”
- Sebastian Neumann-Böhme: “Experiment to Reduce Emergency Care Overutilization by Guiding Patients with a Triage Service in Germany”.
Wala and Sovathiro receiving their awards
Upcoming IHEA Elections
In 2016, IHEA committed to having at least one Director on the Board from each of the six UN Regions (see map of these regions below) as well as at least one Early Career Researcher (ECR) Director. ‘Regional’ Directors were nominated by regional or large national health economics associations. This posed two challenges: some don’t have associations covering the whole region; and most importantly, very few Directors were elected by IHEA members.
Map of UN Regions
Over the last year, the Board has reviewed and amended the IHEA Bylaws (the full amended Bylaws can be seen here). The key change relates to the composition of the Board and that all Board Directors will now be elected by IHEA members.
Board composition
It was agreed that, in addition to the four IHEA Officers (President, President-Elect, Past-President and Treasurer), there will be an ECR Director from the Global North, an ECR Director from the Global South and at least one Director from each of the UN Regions (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America and Oceania). Three additional Directors will be distributed across the UN regions to reflect the distribution of IHEA members. As this will change over time, the Board will specify which regions will have two Directors and which will have one. At present, the regions with the highest percentage share of membership, and so allocated two Directors each are: Asia, Europe and Northern America.
Process for securing Board Directors
A Board Search Committee will identify potential candidates, consulting with local health economics associations. There will also be an open call for nominations including self-nomination. There must be at least two candidates for each Director position.
The key criterion for standing in an election is being an IHEA member for at least two years. IHEA recognizes that members may be studying or working in a country/region that is not the country/region that they regard as home. Each candidate will be asked to motivate their ability to represent the region they are standing for.
All IHEA members can vote for all Board positions; i.e. voting for candidates from a particular region is not restricted to IHEA members from that region.
2025 Elections
The 2025 elections will be for 7 positions:
- President Elect
- 1 Director for Africa
- 1 Director for Latin America & the Caribbean
- 1 Director for Northern America
- 1 Director for Oceania
- 1 ECR Director from the Global North
- 1 ECR Director from Global South
A formal call for nominations and more election details will be issued in late September. The above information is provided now to encourage IHEA members to consider standing or nominating another member for the upcoming elections.
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
Deadline: Monday 19 January 2026
The International Health Economics Association (IHEA) is pleased to invite submissions for the Annual Student Paper Prize in Health Economics.
A student is defined as someone currently studying (full or part time) at a higher education institution, at either Masters or Doctoral level. In addition, students who graduated in the past year (since January 2025) qualify as long as the paper was written while registered as a student.
Papers can be published or unpublished, but must be in comparable format to a published paper in Journal of Health Economics or Health Economics, of maximum length 8,000 words (excluding abstract, tables, figures, references and any appendices). Papers should be in English. Previous winners of this Prize are not eligible to submit a paper.
Papers will be reviewed by an International Committee chaired by Shiko Maruyama (University of Osaka).
The Prize will be: complimentary registration for the 2025 IHEA Congress to present the paper in a Student Prize Special Organized Session chaired by the IHEA President, or Chair of the Prize Committee; a cash prize; and the offer (if the author wishes, and the paper is unpublished) of potential fast track publication in Health Economics, subject to Editorial approval. The papers in 2nd and 3rd place will receive a small cash prize and complimentary registration for the 2025 IHEA Congress. They will be invited to give brief presentations at the IHEA Congress Student Prize Special Organized Session. All prize winners will also receive a certificate that will be presented during the Opening Plenary of the Congress.
Students are invited to submit their papers via the online system here (select the “Student Paper Prize” button then the “Submit a Paper” button). You will be asked to complete a form and to upload two files:
o Your full paper (including abstract, tables, figures, references and any appendices)
o 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%.
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”.
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 here (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. The deadline for submissions is January 19, 2026.
Upcoming Events
Pharmaceutical Drug Regulation and Mortality: Evidence from E-cigarettes.
Date: September 8, 2025
Time: 3:30 AM – 4:30 AM UTC
Speaker: Michael Pesko
Presented by: Economics of Risky Health Behaviors SIG
Applying Mendelian Randomization in Health Economics – Bridging Genomics and Cost-Effectiveness
Date: September 16, 2025
Time: 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM UTC
Speakers: Prof. Zanfina Ademi and Padraig Dixon
Presented by: Economics of Genomics and Precision Medicine SIG
Advancing Health Equity through Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (DCEA)
Date: October 8, 2025
Time: 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm UTC
Speakers: Dr Melanie Lloyd and Dr Hadley Stevens Smith
Presented by: Economics of Genomics and Precision Medicine SIG
Stay tuned for more on upcoming IHEA webinars! You can view all 2024-2025 events here.
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