Keep Growing Your Network

We are pleased to announce that the Economics of Children’s Health and Wellbeing (E-CHW) IHEA Special Interest Group is hosting a second online workshop on networking for Early Career Researchers (ECRs). This workshop aims to foster new networks between senior scholars and ECRs working in child health and provide a forum where ECRs could discuss and learn from experienced scholars how networking helped them navigate the early phases of their careers.

The online workshop will be held on February 2^nd 2023 at 12-2 pm (EST).

This online workshop particularly invites interested ECRs working on child health to participate in the workshop. In the event, ECR participants will introduce their work in max. 3 minutes, followed by 10-minute networking-related talks by the panellists and multiple speed networking sessions. Among our confirmed panellists are:

1. Professor Lisa Prosser, University of Michigan – UNITED STATES

Prof. Prosser is a Professor and Director of the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center. Her research focuses on measuring the value of childhood health interventions using methods of decision sciences and economics. Her work using decision science modelling to project long-term health outcomes for proposed newborn screening programs has been used to inform national newborn screening policy decisions. She holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is also a convenor of the E-CHW IHEA Special Interest Group.

2. Dr. Stefan Lipman, Erasmus University Rotterdam – The NETHERLANDS

Dr. Lipman is an assistant professor at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management. Most of his work focuses on measuring risk and time preference for health, valuation of health and quality of life (with a focus on child health) and prevention of unhealthy behaviour. He is also an ECR convener for the E-CHW IHEA Special Interest Group.

3. Dr. Tiara Marthias, University of Melbourne – AUSTRALIA

Dr. Marthias is a Senior Technical Advisor at Nossal Institute, University of Melbourne – Australia; Management. Her work focuses on inequality in reproductive health, maternal, neonatal and child health using the health systems perspective. She also has extensive experience working with Indonesian ministries and sub-national governments. She is also the newly elected iHEA ECR director.

The workshop aims to maximize interaction between participants, hence the number of spots is limited. The workshop is free of charge, but interested participants will be required to submit their applications to the organizers.

Application details – interested ECRs need to:
1. Briefly introduce themselves, their background and research interests (no more than 50 words);
2. Briefly describe their current Child Health research project (no more than 100 words) and send them via email to both Stefan Lipman (lipman@eshpm.eur.nl) and Giovanni Empel (giovanni.empel@monash.edu) using the “(Keep) Growing your Network” as the email header no later than January 23rd, 2023.