IHEA 2023/24 Elections

IHEA is holding elections from January 10 – 23, 2024 for President-Elect and one new Board Director. If you are a current member of IHEA you will receive a voting notification, with a link to vote, from our voting platform (ElectionBuddy).

The President-Elect, who serves a six-year term (two years as President-Elect, two years as President, and two years as Past-President), is to be elected by the membership from a slate of at least two candidates. To further strengthen geographic diversity on the Board, the election for a Board Director to serve a four-year term, beginning January, 2024, will focus on health economists living and working in Southern, Central and Western Asia (see full list of countries in these sub-regions below). In the first half of November, the Board Search Committee reviewed all expressions of interest and candidates for election are listed below.

More details on the Board composition can be seen here and the IHEA Bylaws can be found here.

IHEA uses runoff voting (also known as preferential or ranked voting) in our Board elections. This involves ranking candidates in order of preference. Below is how voting results are calculated.

The first preference on each ballot counts as a vote for that particular candidate, and the votes are tallied. If no candidate receives a majority (greater than 50% of the total valid ballots), the candidate with the fewest number of votes is eliminated and the ballots for that candidate are redistributed to each ballot’s second preference. The process continues until a majority is reached by one of the candidates.

More information on this process can be found online here.

List of countries in Southern, Central and Western Asian Sub-regions:

Afghanistan	Southern Asia
Bangladesh	Southern Asia
Bhutan	Southern Asia
India	Southern Asia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Southern Asia
Maldives	Southern Asia
Nepal	Southern Asia
Pakistan	Southern Asia
Sri Lanka	Southern Asia
Kazakhstan	Central Asia
Kyrgyzstan	Central Asia
Tajikistan	Central Asia
Turkmenistan	Central Asia
Uzbekistan	Central Asia
Armenia	Western Asia
Azerbaijan	Western Asia
Bahrain	Western Asia
Cyprus	Western Asia
Georgia	Western Asia
Iraq	Western Asia
Israel	Western Asia
Jordan	Western Asia
Kuwait	Western Asia
Lebanon	Western Asia
Oman	Western Asia
Qatar	Western Asia
Saudi Arabia	Western Asia
State of Palestine	Western Asia
Syrian Arab Republic	Western Asia
Türkiye	Western Asia
United Arab Emirates	Western Asia
Yemen	Western Asia