Presenters: Femi Ayadi (University of Houston – Clear Lake), Neha Batura (University College London) and Frikkie Booysen (University of the Witwatersrand) All certificated courses require some form of student assessment.  Assignments, tests and exams have been the main assessment techniques, despite their limitations in assessing whether learning outcomes have been met.  This webinar will explore …

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Featuring speaker: Alex Chan, Stanford University Discrimination against doctors is important but scantly studied. This field experiment observes that customers discriminate against Black and Asian doctors when they choose healthcare providers, and that this can be substantially reduced by supplying information on physician quality. Customer preferences were evaluated in the field with an online platform …

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Presenter: Professor Lisa Prosser (University of Michigan) This webinar will start with an overview of concepts in measuring the spillover effects of illness in family members for cost-effectiveness analysis.  Preliminary results for spillover effects on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in parents of children with COVID-19 illness will be presented, along with losses in HRQOL …

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5-6 pm Thai time, 3:30–4:30 pm India time, 7-8 pm Japan time, 10–11 am London time Featuring speakers: Dr. Piya Hanvoravongchai, Secretary General, Thai National Health Foundation and Equity Initiative Program Director at the China Medical Board Dr. T. Sundararaman, Global Coordinator of People's Health Movement Dr. Kyoko Shimamoto, Project Lecturer at Keio Global Research …

Health Economics and Equity Research in the Digital Age: What are the Implications for Achieving Universal Health Coverage? Read More »

5-6am EST; 10-11am UK; 1-2pm East Africa; 6-7pm China & Western Australia; 9-10pm East Australia  Presenters/panellists: Joanna Coast, University of Bristol and Lisa Gold, Deakin University  This workshop will include brief presentations and extensive discussion on effective student research supervision practices, and guidance for developing individual skills and institutional capacity for supervision to grow Masters …

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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 …

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An informal session to talk to other health economists with an interest in equity. Participants will be allocated to small groups and asked to share their name, location, example of a project they are working on and a key challenge. This will be followed by general discussion. There will be two networking sessions on the …

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An informal session to talk to other health economists with an interest in equity. Participants will be allocated to small groups and asked to share their name, location, example of a project they are working on and a key challenge. This will be followed by general discussion. There will be two networking sessions on the …

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Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CST (Taiwan)/10:00 AM - 11:30 AM SAST/ 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM BST, Friday, July 7th  This event is taking place virtually only. Taiwan’s universal health coverage system, the National Health Insurance, is a single-payer system that covers Taiwan’s entire population of 23.8 million with comprehensive benefits without the …

IHEA Special Taiwan Virtual Session: Accelerating Digital Health: The Digital Transformation of Taiwan’s Single-Payer National Health Insurance Read More »

The 15th IHEA World Congress on Health Economics will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from July 8-12, 2023.  The Health Economics Unit of the University of Cape Town, which is the oldest health economics research centre in Africa, will host the congress. Click here to view the short congress invitation video and preview some …

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Featured speaker: Gabriella Conti, Professor, University College London Gabriella Conti is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University College London. Her areas of interest are health economics, the economics of human development, and biology and economics. Gabriella has published in top journals in different disciplines, such as Science, PNAS, Pediatrics, the Economic Journal, the …

Early Childhood Health Inequalities and In-Utero Health Interventions: Evidence from the Treatment of Gestational Diabetes Read More »