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Advancing Global Evidence on Health Inequality Aversion
This webinar will explore key concepts, methods, and international evidence on health inequality aversion. The session will begin with an introduction to health inequality aversion and an overview of one of the methods used to elicit the parameters. It is followed by presentations from four countries, Australia, Uganda, Japan, and India, that have conducted surveys and derived societal inequality aversion parameters. Speakers will share their experience, challenges, and key findings, offering valuable insights into how different contexts shape preferences for equity in health.
Speakers:
Richard Cookson: Richard Cookson is a Professor at the Centre for Health Economics, and Co-Director of the Equity in Health Policy (Equipol) research group. He has helped pioneer “equity-informative” methods of policy analysis, including distributional cost-effectiveness analysis; health equity indicators for healthcare quality assurance; and methods for investigating public concern for reducing health inequality; and is currently developing microsimulation methods for long-term childhood policy analysis. He has co-chaired international working groups on equity, worked in the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and served on various NHS advisory committees including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the NHS Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation.
Marie-Anne Boujaoude: Marie-Anne Boujaoude is a PhD student at the Melbourne Health Economics. Her research interests include equity in health and healthcare and economic evaluations. She previously operationalized a checklist to incorporate equity in cost-effectiveness analysis and applied it to childhood vaccines. Marie-Anne’s primarily interests focus on advancing methods for gauging public concern for reducing inequality in health and for the implementation of equity-informative methods of health economic evaluations in the Australian context.
Kenneth Katumba: Kenneth is a health economist at the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, where he has engaged in a range of health economics activities including cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions, wellbeing research, quality of life valuation studies, capacity building for health economics research, and strengthening policy uptake of research. He is also a PhD fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he is writing up his research that used behavioural economics and the economics of sex work to investigate current HIV prevention among women engaged in sex work in Kampala, including the contextual factors, the role of cognitive biases in sexual risk behaviour, and the impact of pre-exposure prophylaxis strategies on sexual risk behaviour.
Kyoko Shimamoto: Kyoko is a health economist and has conducted health equity research at Keio University as a Project Lecturer since 2020 in Japan and the University of York as a Visiting Research Fellow since 2024. She also worked for multilateral, bilateral and non-governmental organizations for health policy and program in the LMICs since 2000. She is a part of the leadership team of the ISPOR Special Interest Group on Health Equity Research.
Sitanshu Sekhar Kar: Sitanshu Sekhar Kar is currently the Professor of Preventive & Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry. He is also the Officer-In-Charge of JIPMER International school of Public Health, JIPMER. He has around 19 years of academic and research experience and primarily works in the area of chronic disease epidemiology, health technology assessment, tobacco control and medical education.
The HTAIn Regional Resource centre was established at JIPMER, Puducherry from 2019-20 and subsequently upgraded to Regional Resource Hub in 2024.
He also serves as a board member of HTAsiaLink – a Network for HTA research and evidence-based policy in Asia since 2023.