Add to Calendar! An interactive networking event for SIG members to exchange ideas, discuss current themes and challenges in higher education, and help shape future SIG activities and events.
Add to Calendar! This webinar will feature presentations from Dr Xia Wei (Postdoctoral Researcher, Peking University)and Mackenzie Bourke (PhD Candidate and Research Fellow, University of Melbourne). They will present their research on the economic evaluation of BRCA screening strategies, including implications for prevention policy and resource allocation. Economic evaluation of genetic testing and management strategies […]
Add to Calendar! This webinar explores the multifaceted relationship between culture and health from an economic perspective, integrating insights from anthropology, psychology, and political science. It begins by examining how culture provides meaning to illness and suffering and explores how culturally grounded “disease theory systems” influence beliefs about what causes illness, how and whether suffering […]
Add to Calendar! Background EQ-5D-5L value sets play a vital role worldwide in health technology assessment and measuring population health. However, it is difficult to compare the impact of using different value sets, for example if an older value set is replaced by a new one, or if two or more value sets are available. […]
Add to Calendar! Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1s) represent a major improvement in treatment of diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular risk reduction, but they are also among the most expensive drugs in widespread use and the subject of significant policy debate. The high price of these drugs may overstate their net cost if the health improvements […]
Add to Calendar! Long before the pandemic, increasingly longer waiting times for hospital treatment in English NHS has been a challenge, directly affecting patient outcomes, service efficiency, and overall healthcare quality. In this paper, we develop a theoretical model that links patients' waiting times for planned treatment to hospital nurses' retention, and postulate the possibility […]
Add to Calendar! This web workshop will explore the relationship between health spending and health outcomes, bringing together empirical evidence from a diverse range of country contexts. Presentations will examine whether increased public investment in health translates into measurable improvements in population health, drawing on case studies from Brazil, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, the United […]
Add to Calendar! Ever started a project that was meant to be ‘quick and straightforward’? In this webinar, Associate Professor Nikki McCaffrey will share the story behind a scoping review that took almost a decade to complete before publication in Social Science & Medicine. The talk offers a candid, slightly irreverent look at scope creep, […]
Add to Calendar! This panel discussion will feature short presentations from Professor Segun Fatumo (Chair of Genomic Diversity at Queen Mary University of London and Head of Non-Communicable Disease Genomics at the MRC Uganda Research Unit) and Professor Zhu Chen (College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing). The speakers will highlight emerging opportunities […]
