The 100th Health Economists' Study Group (HESG) meeting will be hosted by ScHARR HEDS on Wednesday, June 22nd to Friday, June 24th, 2022, at the Best Western Plus The Quays Hotel in Sheffield. Further details including conference fees can be found on the conference webpage here, which is updated regularly. HESG Conference Planning Committee Email: hesg-summer-2022@sheffield.ac.uk. Twitter: @HESG2022Shef.
The Teaching Health Economics Special Interest Group (THE SIG) has organized a series of virtual workshops during 2022. The first workshop provided an overview of curriculum development and writing powerful learning outcomes for health economics courses. If you missed this workshop, you can view the presentations here. Details for the next upcoming virtual workshops are provided …
Presenter: John Buckell, University of Oxford Objectives: To compare the impacts of providing brief advice (A), brief advice plus individually-tailored shopping advice (A+S) or taxation (T) and combinations thereof, on the amount of saturated fat (SFA) in consumers shopping baskets relative to control. Methods: Econometric analysis and simulation using data from a randomized controlled …
Moderator: David Bishai Panelists: Damian Walker, Zina Jarrah, Tessa Tan Torres Suppose you already have compelling evidence that something works and is good value for money, how should that evidence be packaged and presented? What evidence matters to whom? This panel discussion will help participants make a better investment case for a health policy decision. …
Do’s and Don’ts for Investment Cases That Impact Policy: A Panel Discussion Read More »
Genomic medicine is rapidly changing the healthcare paradigm for multiple conditions, including cancer and rare diseases. With governments around the world increasingly investing in genomics research and implementation into clinical practice, and with the health economics evidence base on genomic medicine expanding, it is important to reflect on the role of health economics to change …
Presenter: Ann Livingstone, University of Sydney Ann was recently awarded her PhD. She has a keen interest in patient preferences in trial-based and modelled economic evaluation. In addition, she works as an evaluator for the Australian Medical Services Advisory Committee, reviewing and critiquing evidence to inform government policy decision-making regarding health technologies. Adjuvant immunotherapy has …
Preferences for Adjuvant Immunotherapy in Resected Stage III Melanoma Read More »
Presenters: Kara Hanson, Tim Powell-Jackson, Triin Habicht, Shankar Prinja In this webinar, we are going to present the findings from our Lancet Global Health Commission on Financing PHC report on two key issues: Resource Allocation and Provider Payment. We will also present two country case studies from India and Estonia to illustrate the problems and …
Financing PHC in LMICs: Putting People at the Centre Read More »
We are pleased to announce that the Mental Health Economics Special Interest Group is launching a series of themed virtual social hours for economists working in and/or interested in mental health. The aim of these social hours is to bring together people with similar interests and foster new networks. We will be running a short …
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Presenters: Veloshnee Govender, Rajalakshmi RamPrakash, Michelle Remme, Lavanya Vijayasingham In this webinar we argue that gender equity has been relatively neglected in the field of health economics. This neglect has been to the detriment of building theory, research and health policy and programme implementation. We will illustrate our argument through specific application of gender …
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, …
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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 …
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) …
Student-athlete Preferences for Sexual Violence Reporting: A Discrete Choice Experiment Read More »
