ECR SIG – Identifying a Research Question Webinar

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Zoom

The Early Career Researchers SIG will be holding a webinar on the topic of identifying a research question at the rescheduled date and time of the 5th of October, 2pm UK time (9am EDT/1pm GMT/12am AEDT). This webinar will explore how to identify an appropriate research question. Choosing a research question can depend on topic, […]

Skills Workshop: Developing Context Relevant Health Economics Case Studies as Active Learning Material

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Zoom

Presenters: Di McIntyre (University of Cape Town) and Heather Brown (University of Lancaster) Case studies (exercises, simulations, games, etc.) are powerful tools to promote active learning.  They can assist in developing a good understanding of complex concepts or methods, developing skills to apply these concepts and methods and promoting analytic thinking and interpretation.  This virtual […]

Student-athlete Preferences for Sexual Violence Reporting: A Discrete Choice Experiment

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Zoom

Featuring: Alice Ellyson, Acting Assistant Professor | Department of Pediatrics | School of Medicine, University of Washington Background: Sexual violence (SV) is prevalent among US college athletes, but formal reports are rare. Little is known about adaptations to institution-level reporting policies and procedures that could facilitate reporting.    Methods: We conducted a discrete choice experiment (DCE) […]

Skills Workshop: Innovative Techniques for Student Assessments

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Zoom

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 […]

Discrimination Against Doctors: A Field Experiment

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Zoom

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 […]

Free

Valuing Health for Children, Adults, and Caregivers: Lessons Learned from COVID-19

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Zoom

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 […]

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

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Zoom

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 […]

Free

Skills Workshop: Supervising Research Dissertations and Building Research Supervision Capacity

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Zoom

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 […]

Keep Growing Your Network

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Zoom

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 […]

Free

Equity-Informative Economic Evaluation Networking Event – Session #1

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Zoom

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 […]

Free

Equity-Informative Economic Evaluation Networking Event – Session #2

Event Category:
Zoom

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 […]

Free