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! Is the trade-off between health system efficiency and equity inevitable? This iHEA Health Efficiency SIG webinar brings together evidence from OECD countries (efficiency-equity dynamics), Chile (UHC fragmentation and new inequalities), and the US (public health impact of federal worker layoffs). Host: Simon Combes, Lecturer in Health Economics, UCL Global Business School for Health, […]

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 […]